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- Dumitrescu, Delia, et al.
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Touching Loops
- 2009
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Touching Loops is a collection of three knitted textiles with structure-changing interactive properties. The textiles are able to sense and react to touch by shrinking, breaking or becoming stiff. The textiles are thought of as interactive architectural material. When they are touched, a specific area in the textile becomes hot. A microcontroller that is connected to the textile is programmed to sense and react to touch. The materials in the samples react to heat in different ways by shrinking, becoming stiff or by breaking into pieces. The developing process consisted in programming the patterns for industrial machines in such a way that the conductive silver yarns are of important matter for the material aesthetics besides their function to generate heat. The three knitted pieces react in different ways when current passes trough the conductive yarns. The first piece combines a silver coated copper yarn and Pemotex yarn in a ridge pattern. In the second sample a Jaquard pattern combines shrinking polyester monofilament, a Grilon yarn and a silver coated copper yarn. This piece reacts to heat by breaking and shrinking. The third piece is constructed with partial knitting and ridge patterns and the yarns used are Pemotex, a Grilon yarn and the silver coated copper yarn. When the conductive yarn gets hot, the ridges shrink and harden. The aim of the project is to explore possibilities for expressive interactive tactile knitted materials and structures. The textiles are seen as a possible material to use in the context of architecture.
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- Worbin, Linda, et al.
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Textile Possibilities
- 2008
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Textile can be more than just patterns and washability. Today it can have other functions, visible or hidden and they can be interactive. Textile has simply become high-tech. What used to be considered science fiction is today reality. The exhibition TEXTILE POSSIBILITIES focuses on experiments that explores the possibilities that modern textile materials offers. There are no actual products on display in the exhibition, instead the latest research from textile is shown. For instance, visitors can experience how electricity, heat and movements alter colours and structures within the textiles. The exhibition shows the research process and lets the visitor interact with the different textile prototypes. The exhibition TEXTILE POSSIBILITIES aims to inspire, convey knowledge and to visualise a possible textile development. It shows a way for how experimental design research through collaboration with the commercial community can affect and build it’s own future here in Sweden.
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- Dumitrescu, Delia Mihaela, et al.
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Knitted Forms in Movement
- 2014
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Other publication (exhibition/event) (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Presence in a space has own rhythm of change; it is organic,but it can be expressed structurally by the textile forms. The textile acts as a mirror between spaces that have been separated; the textile collects and spreads information through changes in structure. Motion sensors embedded in the textile are tracking the movement in one space, after a short time the textile starts to rotate the knitted modules in a slow pace repositioning its patterns.
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- Dumitrescu, Delia, et al.
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Pattering by Heat
- 2012
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Patterning by Heat: The Responsive Textile Structures presents 4 different computational textile structures that change the appearance of space through 2 different transformations that happen in the surface expression. The first typology of material is pixilated, designed with yarn that melts at high temperature; accordingly, the fabric opens or breaks when it receives current. The opening allows designers flexibility to experiment with see through effects on the fabric, or to ‘write’ upon the fabric making apertures, collecting foreground and background together in one shape. The second material has been designed with yarn that shrinks or draws solid lines in the fabric when it receives current. The shrinking reveals a more opaque patterning in the textile closing parts of that textile off, transforming the nature of that space. Both breaking and shrinking yarns have been knitted into four different architectural tension structures that are designed using computation and textiles to track people’s presence in space by the changes that appear in the surface design.
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- Zboinska, Malgorzata, 1981, et al.
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Voluminous Interactive Architectural Substance ("Soft Architectural Body" and "Pliant Flesh of Architecture")
- 2019
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this architectural research exploration, we challenge the notion of an interactive architectural surface as single-layered, two-dimensional surface/interface. If the future architectural interiors and exteriors are made from Voluminous Architectural Substance, how will it be to dwell with them? This exhibition, featured at the Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) in Tempe, Arizona, USA, shows two physical, interactive architectural prototypes probing this question in-depth. Prototype 1 - The Pliant Flesh of Architecture How would it be if the building was collecting and sharing your data? Would you like to be aware of it? Imagine a building that has assimilated the archaic add-ons. Assimilated power outlets, lamps and doors. They are a part of its substance. Imagine a building that will light up the space in advance, based on the direction of your movements. You’ll never see darkness. Imagine a building that will divide the space to satisfy your needs before you even think about them. At some point you will wonder if your living room and kitchen even exist when you are not there. Is there such a thing as ‘a room’ when you are not in it? What is a room? Is there such a thing as a dark room? Prototype 2 - The Soft Architectural Body How would it feel to touch the Voluminous Architectural Substance? The slow change of perspectives. Of the eye. Of the hand. There might be movement within the wall-bulk. Inner. Inner you. Inner body-wall. What is a wall? Volume? Bulk? Softness? Enclosure? Embrace? Separation? Juncture?
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