The textile interior: Imagining a transformative architecture. (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard; Bech, Karin
• Is Part Of: Design ecologies. Volume 5:Number 1/2(2016)
• Page Start: 48
• Page End: 81
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Design -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Sustainable architecture -- Periodicals; Sustainable design -- Periodicals; 720.47
• DOI: 10.1386/des.5.1-2.48_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-0698

Abstract

The article explores the heritage of textiles in architecture as a medium for a transformative architecture. It explores the means by which textiles act and suggests textiles as a main bearer of spatial imagination and meaning. Here, alternative architectural concepts of transportability, storytelling, propaganda, exoticism and the scenographic are situated and explored, presenting a framework in which transformation and richness are central themes. By presenting a series of studies – The Curtain Projects – the article aims to uphold this broader imagination of how textiles can take a real part in how we think, live and build architecture today.