PROSTHETIC SURFACE – DESIGN MODELS FOR A DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
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- 2007-10-05T02:05:32Z
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The research investigates strategies of dynamic surface formations in a transfer from sartorial
fashion to architecture. ‘Remote Control Dress’ (Hussein Chalayan), ‘Dress becomes Body (Rei
Kawakubo) and ‘A-Poc’ (Issey Miyake) are precedents of specific technologies and techniques
that produce responsive, performative, or phenomenal dresses. These garments can deliver
generative surface methods for an architecture operated through the user. The research frames
key parameters (cutting scheme, constructive line, programmatic insertions, and operative field)
and their respective characteristics and interrelations in analysis. Thus, principles are derived
and channeled into performative design models in a media rotation with a conversion between
digital and analogue modeling. The paper discusses the potential of these dynamic design
models in a design process that addresses the change capacities of architecture in a shifting
cultural and programmatic context.
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