Essays about: "textile architecture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words textile architecture.
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1. Where Something Goes Up, Something Else Goes Down : May a meeting between textile and glass disrupt the hierarchical order among materials and techniques?
University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : We have a tendency to want to sort our surroundings, we set things against each other, value them and place them in a hierarchical order.Where something goes up, something else goes down.We attribute different properties to materials, techniques and spaces and load them with values. READ MORE
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2. The Weave
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : This project starts starts out in wanting to somehow investigate the public space. Beginning in the questions of: What kind of interventions can we achieve in the public space? What is allowed, what is encouraged - what is not? How easy or how difficult is it to achieve building something within the folds of the public space of our city? On the scale of the intervention itself, we were interested in what things could be investigated through design and materiality: How can we, through this design, encapsulate and measure softer, hard-to-grasp elements such as time, changes and interactions? How can we design a structure that will be responsive to the traces and manifestations of these things? What materials and organization of these can embody them? . READ MORE
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3. A Seamless City : female textile workers in the urban fabric of Malmö
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : This thesis examines how the historical presence of female textile industry workers can be envisaged in the urban landscape of Malmö. With the background of Malmö’s urban history and transformation from an industrial town to a “City of Knowledge”, and an autoethnographic method based on a framework of Critical Normativity, two case studies are performed. READ MORE
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4. Endogenic Production : subjective matter and bodily involvement
University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : The word endogenic means growing or proceeding from within, it is commonly used to describe the process of tectonic movement and earth crust formation caused by the extrusion of magmatic material. My project is a metaphorical exploration of the geological term “endogenic process” as well as an exploration of a design approach based on the term. READ MORE
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5. Weaving architecture
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : I have used weaving as a method to investigate connections between this craft and architecture. The project can be divided into four parts: The first part is a research phase starting from the etymology of the word textile, which derives from the latin word texere which means - to weave, to join, to build, to construct etc. READ MORE
