WEATHER-PROOF:

FROM BODY TO CLOTHING

Fall 2010

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Advisor: John Lin

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PROJECT STATEMENT

Through the inhabitation of the body, architecture is made relevant. Therefore we use our own bodies to engage ideas about architecture at a number of scales.

The studio considers objects which negotiate between the body and the environment. A surface which clothes the body and functions as an interface to climate and weather is designed and constructed.

The notion of shelter is perhaps the originating idea of architecture. Forces of climate and weather is what give rise to architecture in terms of being the shelter or the originating idea of architecture.


BODY MAPPING

The photographic works of Muybridge and Marey illustrate space through a sequence of two-dimensional images. How does one represent space, which is inherently three-dimensional in two-dimensional form?

Elastic bands are strapped around our bodies to resemble deformation due to antagonistic force pairs. Measured mappings resemble the connections and planes generated between two bodies.

Our skin is a dynamic landscape that is completely three-dimensional. it has no defined limit as the surface wraps and revolves around our bodies. The connections create planes that evolve to create a continuous solid.


MAPPING PROTOTYPE

Clothing, like architecture, is a way to mediate external conditions and forces from the outside.
Clothing has structure, shape and openings; tailored to fit a three-dimensional body allowing for movement of a body.

Layering, folding, pleating, wrapping and padding all create spaces between the body and clothes.
Space, void, openings, twisting of form contribute to a clothing object which reflects numerous possibilities.