BRAIDEMENT
TRANSFORMABLE MATTER
AA Intermediate 13 PIERRE VAUBOURG
Tought by Soomeen Hahm
Formal References
Bauk Knottnerus Phat knits 2008
The Rotterdam-based designer Bauke Knottnerus created a series of giant threads to create, knitted or not, interior products embellishing the entrance hall and exhibition space during the Unravel Knitwear in Fashion exhibition at the MoMu Fashion Museum of Antwerp. His Phat Knits series are large-scale knitted design elements, created with oversized needles to weave the huge threads together. This synthesis of art, fashion and furniture gives gigantic and spectacular knitted pieces. He explains, “These things I make could end up as furniture or as textiles, it’s more like creating media that can be used to construct a coat or a carpet or a curtain.”
Iris Van Herpen Capriole 2011
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer based in Paris. Van Herpen’s fashion designs always express an interest in other art forms, and in a general curiosity of the world beyond fashion. The design is only realized in equal interaction with the body. A ‘leap in the air’ (the meaning of the French word Capriole) that Van Herpen once in a while takes to reset her body and mind. For instance, the dress consisting of serpentine forms made of black acrylic sheets, nicknamed the ‘snake dress’, evokes the mental state at the moment before the jump when, as Van Herpen explains, “all my energy is in my head and I feel as though my mind is snaking through thousands of bends”
Braidement
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Knotting
Braidement
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Braiding - Multidirectional
Braidement
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Twisting - Column
End of the form where the elements are relinked with the slab
The “heart� of the column is the place where the weaving is the most intense
To start from a point where the elements are aligned and starts to weave
Braidement
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Twisting - Column
End of the form where the elements are relinked with the slab
The “heart� of the column is the place where the weaving is the most intense, here the braids are separating in two groups
To start from a point where the elements are aligned and starts to weave
Braidement
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Twisting - Shell/Arch A bending moment is the reaction induced in a structural element when an external force or moment is applied to the element causing the element to bend. The most common or simplest structural element subjected to bending moments is the beam. The example shows a beam which is simply supported at both ends. Simply supported means that each end of the beam can rotate; therefore each end support has no bending moment. The ends can only react to the shear load.
Here the bending moment is the result of the weaving pattern of the pipes foam. More the pipes are weaving, more the structure will be efficient.
Perspective
Top View
Elevation
Braidement
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Entanglement Those separate elements are working together to create this form and mimic the octopus tentacle and create a bag. The straps are made to create the idea of something trying to catch a point. But to create a non flat form i decided to play with gravity on the bag, to deform it and make it more realistic to compare with the octopus.
Exercise #01
Exercise #02
Exercise #03
Frame 0
Frame 84
Frame 158
Gravity -1,0,0
Gravity -1,0,0
Gravity -1,0,0
Exercise #03 Gravity -1,0,0 Frame 158
Exercise #02 Gravity -1,0,0 Frame 84
Exercise #01 Gravity -1,0,0 Frame 0
Braidement
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Twisting - Column (Bi-directional)
Elevation
Top View
Braidement
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Twisting - Shell/Arch
Braidement
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Twisting - Shell/Arch
Braidement
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Braidement
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Scales
Material Data Sheet Diametre: 1,5cm PE Foam High density foam
Material Data Sheet Diametre: 5cm PE Foam High density foam
Material Data Sheet Diametre: 30cm PE Foam High density foam
Braidement
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Twisting - Component
The weaving start from a single point were all the pipes are connected
The heart of the module, where all the pipes are weaving creates tension
Then the weaving end to another connection
Braidement
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Component - Shell structure
Faces Lines Geometry
Geometry
Guides Curves Gravity Deformation G = 4 m/s² G = 6 m/s²
G = 9,80 m/s²
0 1
3 0
4 2
5 2
6 3
7 3
8 4
9 4
10 5
11 5
12 6
Braidement
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Component Joints - Shell structure
8 Number of elements
10
14
22
24
30
Top view
Perspective
Braidement
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Furniture Scale
Perspective
Elevation
The braiding start from a single point were all the pipes are connected.
The exterior braids connect first the pipes.
Then the braiding create the form and the structure of it.
Braidement
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Twisting - Stair Experiment
Elevation
Ramps
Connections
Central Space
Braidement
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Twisting - Stair Experiment
Braidement
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Location
Braidement
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New connection
1. 2D Loop
3. Connection Braidement
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Aim of the project
4. Connections
0
Gateways circulations
0
2
4
8
12
Braidement
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Interior Path
Braidement
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Interior Path
Braidement
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Interior Path
Braidement
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Section
0
2
4
5
Braidement
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Structures
Envelope
Panels
Secondary Structure
Primary Structure
Ground Floor Structure
Braidement
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