Research's IaaC - Open Thesis Fabrication 2010: Bloon

Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010
Research Candidate:  Nicholas Waissbluth

Project description: Bloon, a collaboration with the Barcelona based space tourism company, Zero 2 Infinity, is a capsule that will travel to near space giving travellers the experience to view our planet in the most unique way. The Open Thesis project concentrates on the space capsule: the geometry, possible fabrication processes, and building a 1:1 prototype.

The first phase consists of understanding the geometry of the capsule (a torus) supported by research in composite structures such as Automatic Fiber Placement technologies (AFP), and finally building a lightweight 1:1 prototype of one section of the capsule to be used for long term research into the design and fabrication of the capsule.

Program Advisors: Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada
Guest Tutors: Kas Oosterhuis (Oosterhuis_Lénárd, Tu Delft-Director of Hyperbody), Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms, AA Architectural Assosiation), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Tu Delft_Researcher at Hyperbody)