AA Int13 2016/17_BRAIDEMENT

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

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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

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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

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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

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Structures

Envelope

Panels

Secondary Structure

Primary Structure

Ground Floor Structure

Braidement

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