DISHEVELED GEOEMETRIES

Towards a New Rustication in Architecture
Critic: Prof. Mark Foster Gage (Yale University)
Year: 2012

This project explores the repositioning of weaving as a contemporary surface articulation deployed within a façade system. Following a tectonic behavior in which form converges structure and enveloppe, figure and void, material and visual effect, this study attempts to translate textile strategy to building system; if fabric is thread and relief, the latter becomes surface and volume. Taking this direction, weaving is expressed as a composition of faceted steel segments that create both gradient effects and emergent conditions of scale, color, transparency and weaving patterns. As its textile counterpart, this system suggests no single hierarchy between tessellation and weave, foreground and background or hard and fluid.

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Published in Disheveled Geometries II