In the Fold - Performance Enhancing

IN THE FOLD 408J.01 - PERFORMANCE ENHANCING CHUN LIU & CHRISTOPHER TAURASI

CONTEMPORARY PRECEDENCE

5-23

MATERIAL EXPLORATION

24-27

GEOMETRIC ITERATIONS

28-33

HUMAN FACTOR

34-39

DIGITAL PROCESS

40-43

FABRICATION

44-49

FINAL DESIGN

50-60

CONTEMPORARY PRECEDENCE

CAPRIOLE

BY IRIS VAN HERPEN

Iris van Herpen made her debut in Paris as member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture with this collection. Besides being a compilation of highlights from previous collections, this new collection also presented five striking outfits that evoke the feeling just before and during a free-fall parachute jump. 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.

The five outfits are a reflection of the extreme feelings experienced during that jump. 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”

3D PRINTED RESIN

LYON AIRPORT

BY SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

Calatrava’s expressive railway station hall is built astride an existing TGV (high-speed train) track adjacent to Lyon airport. It provides a TGV station for the airport, but also a connection point for both TGV and airplanes into the regional road and rail system.

The building’s most striking profile, based on two converging steel arches 120 meters long and 40 meters high. The building is most obviously expressive of a bird, symbolizing flight with even more dynamism than Saarinen’s TWA terminal in New York, the two main arches coming together at the bird’s beak. Calatrava insists this was not its origin: “I never thought of a bird, but more of the research that I am sometimes pretentious enough to call sculpture” - which is inspired more by the shape of the human eye.

CONCRETE, STEEL & GLASS

CONTROL COLLECTION

BY SANDRA BACKLUND

“The interplay of textures, shapes and form works so well, and in an all black collection the depths created are not lost.”

In Sandra Backlund’s design, the shape and silhouette is key; she especially loves the shape, and the connection of the sleeves to the overall shape and structure, with the ribbing forming patterns and allowing the eye to move freely along the garment.

Black thread/nylon

Linear Patterns

CIUDAD CIENCIAS

BY SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

The City of Arts and Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex designed by Calatrava. in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia. The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park.

The image Is an interactive museum of science that resembles the skeleton of a whale. It occupies around 40,000 m² on three floors.

The hotch-potch of exhibits is designed more for ‘entertainment value’ than for science education.

The building is much more impressive outside than inside and its meagre contents show how little thought was put into the whole project.

CONCRETE, STEEL & GLASS

structure formation

waving pattern

408J.01 - PERFORMANCE ENHANCING REPETITIVE EXOSKELETAL ELEMENTS CHUN LIU & CHRISTOPHER TAURASI

waving pattern

408J.01 - PERFORMANCE ENHANCING REPETITIVE EXOSKELETAL ELEMENTS CHUN LIU & CHRISTOPHER TAURASI

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r lo c k

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Polar Array

L o ft

ing Around Form

R ep

e t itiv e G e o m e tr y

MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS

Materials were explored throughout the design process. Styrene proved to be too rigid and bristol board tore too easily. In the end, interfacing was chosen based on it’s flexibility, appearance and ease of assembly.

GEOMETRIC ITERATIONS

HUMAN FACTOR

DIGITAL PROCESS

FABRICATION

FINAL DESIGN