Relational Textiles
2013 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Sustainable development
The content falls within the scope of Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]
The relationship between technology and the expression of form have always been interconnected in the architectural design process; associating the art of envisioning spaces with the craft of materializing them. Recently in terms of surface fabrication, computational tools of representation and material fabrication opened for architectural design new possibilities to explore novel spatial expressions. Surface design processes in architecture start to borrow from the logic of representation of different non-hierarchical structures, e.g., biological systems or textile construction techniques. Relating to that, the present fascination of textiles in architectural design relies on this specific way of building surface design as non-hierarchical form, and by that, allowing the designer to play with the depth of the surface design at micro and macro levels. Exploring different relations between digital and physical through textiles expressions, this research reassess static principles of form–marking the turn from static to relational principles. Thus, the intention is to describe how the character of the textiles and computation as design material redefines the notion of space trough surface aesthetics merging the digital to the physical, and how spatiality can be questioned through textile and interaction aesthetics. Using practice-based research methodology, this research opens and explores this design space by relating theory and practice; it questions and reframes fundamental concepts of expression and scale in architecture by proposing methods for surface design, and a specific language to describe textile architectural aesthetics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013.
Keywords [en]
smart textiles, architectural design, design methodology, practice-based research, Smart Textiles Applications for Architectural Design
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Textile, Rubber and Polymeric Materials Design
Research subject
Textiles and Fashion (General)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-6986Local ID: 2320/12242OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-6986DiVA, id: diva2:887693
Conference
Chair for CAAD, HPZ Floor F, ETH, Switzerland
2015-12-222015-12-222017-02-18Bibliographically approved