Rice Architecture
25HM_X11
Deniz Kantar
Yousif Giyo
Fatima Castro
This project explores the spatial and structural potential of an elastic fabric membrane through the controlled use of a hanging stocking and a series of pill shapes to conduct a number of formal and spatial explorations of the membrane. Initially, we started this project by exploring how a systematized approach could produce unpredictable forms, specifically in observing how various organic or bulbous forms in nature, like cacoons, might then operate as a hanging form. Initial tests that were conducted looked into how different types of fabrics, such as cotton, chainmail, and nets, could potentially produce these effects, all of which were distanced from the capacity to produce the forms we were interested in. We ultimately settled on utilizing a stocking as our membrane material, which not only could be effective as a hanging model but also had the potential to develop organic forms through the introduction of an additional element through the pills.
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