Pleat: Textile Design

Designing Matter, Essay, Floppy Logic, No Density, Technology and fabrication

Acoustics, Aesthetics, Architectural explorations, Architecture, Design, Design process, Design thinking, Design-based research development, Efficiency, Essay, Experimental Fabrications, Fabrics, Flexibility, Form, Materials, New techniques, Paper, Performative Envelope, Potential, Power of form, Research, StructureTextile

Floppy logic : experimenting in the territory between architecture, fashion and textiles / Leanne Zilka.
https://lccn.loc.gov/2019950708

This chapter discusses a series of projects that revolve around the Pleat, a fashion and textile technique I have explored to develop an understanding around where fashion, textile design can be used to develop architecture, and how the differences in these approaches can be used to develop an architecture that considers material, structure, skin and form at the same time and not a separate processes. Through the design and fabrication explorations of the Pleat, I have applied the lessons learned from the previous collaborations with fashion and textile design, discarded peripheral directions, and established a way of operating for future projects. The projects discussed in this chapter include the Pleat Pod, Pleat Pavilion and Pleatent. These projects have used the process of developing smaller tests or croquis developed through the collaborations to inform the larger architectural propositions of the Pleat projects. The images in this section document the processes taken, problems encountered and resolutions to communicate the benefits and possibilities of working in the space between fashion, textile design and architecture.