IMA Design Concepts

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Design Scheme

2008-01-28T12:48:00.000-08:00

Stronger...Faster...More Productive

2008-01-17T18:25:00.000-08:00

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
April 8–October 30, 2005

Curator: Matilda McQuaid

Designers: Toshiko Mori Archtects

Extreme Textiles is the first major museum exhibition to showcase the most innovative textile technologies today. The curator Matilda McQuaid focused on the most extreme application of these textiles and how they have changed the fields of architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, and the environment.

“…Industrials fabrics rarely if ever are designed for aesthetic effect, yet they seem beautiful largely because they share the precision, delicacy, pronounced texture, and exact repetition of detail characteristic of the twentieth-century machine art.”[McQuaid, pg. 12]

Key motifs from the exhibit include materials that have been made stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter due to the technological advances in textiles. Stronger materials are characterized by having a high modulus, high tenacity, extraordinary strength-to-weight ratio, ability to withstand extreme operating temperatures and flame and chemical resistance. Faster embodies a wide range of technologies used in various types of sporting equipment such as cars, sailboats, racing skulls, and bicycles in order to give them the high-performance edge. Lighter more durable materials make for a higher performance. Textile technologies have made materials Safer, less susceptible to cuts, abrasions, bullets and other punctures. Smarter technologies have even been developed and integrated into textiles like clothing to make them more interactive and responsive in sports and battlefield situations. The designer Toshiko Mori Architects developed a series of 3D stainless steel frames to provide a flexible armature in which to view the objects. These armatures created a circulation pattern that allowed the fabrics and textiles to be viewed from both sides while circulating through the space.

McQuaid, Matilda. Extreme textiles: Designing for high performance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/extreme_textiles/index.asp
http://www.tmarch.com/projects/cultural/extreme_textiles:_cooper-hewitt_design_museum/1

2008-01-16T09:47:00.000-08:00

sampleBOX Recipe:
Step 1:Create Volume
Step 2:Extrude Pattern Through Volume(In this case a circulation pattern is carved through the volume)Step 3:Contour or Section the Remaining Volumes
Step 4:Connect Sections Together Using Base Sections

SERVO Lattice Archipelogics Recipe:
Step 1:Select Polygon
Step 2:Abstract Polygon "parachute"
Step 3:Create Network of Positive and Negative
Step 4:Interconnect to make wall and hang to define space

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2008-01-14T10:34:00.000-08:00

Welp...here it is people, first blog from this kid. This blog will be a supplement to my work in my current architecture studio. Today we start our project at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Keep checking back to see new posts.

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