Best of #fabric

Fabric becomes sculpture, architecture or installation: ten stories for the weekend.

Inga Sempé, Sibelius, Ligne Roset
Fabric as an object suit, as an architecture’s suit but also as structure: we chose ten stories about this material and its creative possibilities.

– To present the Kinnasand’s collection Zoom Schemata turns a soft material such as fabric in a freestanding three-dimensional object thanks to a network of optical fiber.

– Four students of The Bartlett School of Architecture used the traditional art of stitching to transform a flat sheet of felt into structurally strong, intricate, fluid shapes.
Schemata Architects, boingboing, Kvadrat Japan Showroom, Tokyo
Schemata Architects, boingboing, Kvadrat Japan Showroom, Tokyo

– Using an innovative method of casting concrete in lightweight fabric moulds, Orkidstudio and StructureMode, have worked with a team of Khmer women in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to rebuild a community centre in the city’s urban heart.

– Point Supreme won the international competition Urban Shade with a colorful, modular pavilion made of steel and fabric that plays with the triangle’s shape.

– Sound, textile and Arduino are the key elements of this project conceived by Budapest-based studio EJTech to enable the user to create sound in real time.
Sang Hoon Youm e Yoo Jung Lee, Dancing Forest, piazza della Stazione, Seoul, Corea
Sang Hoon Youm e Yoo Jung Lee, Dancing Forest, piazza della Stazione, Seoul, Corea

– Sang Hoon Youm and Yoo Jung Lee installed in front of the Seoul Station a group of rotating pavilions which reconfigures the ever-changing relationship between people, art, time and the city.

– Born from conversations with locals, production teams, workers, manufacturers, students and photographers, Nautilus is an event space to re-animate a neglected part of Skopje.

– After a three years-development, Benjamin Hubert released his modular acoustic partition system, which requires no installation expertise, thanks to its clipping system.

– A set of intercalated dots and dashes, sometimes linked, in an irregular rhythm, cover the fabric designed by Inga Sempé for Ligne Roset, presented during Maison&Objet.

Kunstnernes Hus’ new public atelier and exhibition space, in Oslo, is a place painted in soft colors that can be divided into three zones by a traslucent curtain and its soft curves.
Layer, Scale, Woven Image
Layer, Scale, Woven Image

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