Fabrication | Online Workshop | English | North-South Americas
Description:
The New Veils: Couture and Architecture workshop will explore experimental fabric structures, influenced by Philip Beesley's ongoing collaboration with Iris van Herpen and the experimental canopies and architectural-scale fabrics of the Living Architecture Systems Group www.lasg.ca. Students will be offered a series of detailed presentations where Beesley & co's patterns and working methods will be shared in detail, demonstrating how their innovative experimental structures could be further explored and developed.
Multiple open-source patterns will be shared, providing a launch for individual studies of 'tesselation' patterns and interlinking structures. The personal scales of wearable fabrics will provide a particular focus.
During the course of the five-day workshop, individual participants will be asked to develop meticulously detailed drawings accompanied by physical models. Photographs and samples of these explorations would be combined within a final presentation.
Key Words:
Couture,Living Architecture,Hybrids,Fabrics
Required Skills:
Design, facility in manual fabrication, hand drawing
Required Software:
Digital drawing, advanced image processing
Required Hardware:
Access to rudimentary raw materials, recycled/found ok: paper, wire, thin sticks, hot glue, thread, cutting tools etc.
Maximum number of participating students:
16
Multiple open-source patterns will be shared, providing a launch for individual studies of 'tesselation' patterns and interlinking structures. The personal scales of wearable fabrics will provide a particular focus.
During the course of the five-day workshop, individual participants will be asked to develop meticulously detailed drawings accompanied by physical models. Photographs and samples of these explorations would be combined within a final presentation.
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 1
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 29
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Day 3 / Jun 30
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Day 4 / Jul 1
Instructors:
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Philip Beesley Living Architecture Systems Group, Philip Beesley Studio, University of Waterloo, European Graduate School,ProfessorPhilip Beesley is a multidisciplinary thinker, artist, and designer. He is a Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, and Professor of Digital Design and Architecture & Urbanism at the European Graduate School. His work is widely cited in art and architecture for its pioneering contribution to the rapidly expanding field of responsive and interactive systems. Beesley’s creative work is devoted to opening traditional boundaries between nature and technology. The heart of his work lies in emergence of consciousness and boundaries of life and death alike. Meticulously crafted layers of his individually crafted components combine innovative next-generation digital design and construction with meticulous hand craft, formed into crystalline, overwhelmingly complex fabric-like constructions. Beesley serves as the Director of the Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) and Director for Riverside Architectural Press. His Toronto-based practice, Philip Beesley Studio Inc., works in numerous collaborations, including longstanding exchanges with Iris van Herpen, Salvador Breed, and Rob Gorbet. His immersive environment GROVE is currently installed at the 2021 Venice Biennale for Architecture.