Standing Textiles Structural Fabrics to Redefine Interior Design

Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, No Density, Project, Technology and fabrication

3D parameters, Aesthetics, Art&technology, Design, Designing Matter, Digital fabrication, Energetic Approach, Fabrics, Interior design, Material experimentation, Project, Structure, Technological Approach, Textile, Textile industry

Photo: Angeline Swinkels, Ronald Smits
Consultants: Lastra Zorrilla

This work is the result of the collaboration with Juegaterapia, a non-profit foundation that improves the living conditions of children with cancer. They began by delivering donated play-stations to children to be used during chemo treatments, but they have expanded their agenda and now they transform rooftops and leftover spaces for installations in pediatric hospitals into playgrounds for hospitalized children. This project offered a great opportunity to test out how design can shape perception, cognition and experience and most, importantly, how it can be instrumental in improving everyday life.