INHABITED MEMBRANES CITA STUDIO

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This 1 week workshop ‘Inhabited Membranes’ asked us to consider the qualities of a textile architecture. By the given minimal membranes we explored, designed and made our own ​full scale textile spaces ​for inhabitation.

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The workshop introduced us to digital form finding and dynamic relaxation techniques that allowed us to understand and design the relations between ​3-dimensional form and 2-dimensional cutting patterns​. Following the semester focus on light, we questioned the way in which membranes could filter light ​creating a sense of interior. How perforations, reinforcements and layering could support and develop both spatial quality and structural performance.

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Each group got a space in the studio to fill out, connected to one another,  by the concept of “Exquisite Corps”, our piece had to end in the given circle.

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Tools used:

Rhino
Kangaroo 2

20 meters of a white mesh textile.

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Date: September 2018

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