bubbely life I

“In the beginning was the pneu.” Frei Otto

Membranes strained by internal pressure are the basis of all live and nature’s language of forms. In living nature soft parts stay as a bubble till their decay. Other parts harden after shaping, forming bending resistant, spatial structures – still maintaining the history of their finalization. 

During the process of hardening the membranes tend to open up, leaving framework like systems.
The form with the minimal surface / length occurs based on surface tension.
The ideal partitioning of one space in smaller parts of the same size and minimal surface is a truncated cube octahedron with four-arm-knots and

The open-cell foam is the geometric basis of the resulting construction, with four-arm-knots and three-edge-arms.
The partitioning based on minimal surfaces is shape giving.