VERTICAL STUDIO TWO

TEXTILE AND ARCHITECTURE

 The vertical studio module for this year is focusing on linking textile production processes with architecture. In the very first session, we visited looms in the school of arts in Bonington, Nottingham Trent University in order to expose us to the textile making processes and for us to begin to have an idea of how these processes can inspire concepts for our respective designs. The theme of design is fixed and we are all to design a bridal shop for a client who presently owns a bridal shop in lace market Nottingham; Kula Tsurdiu (http://www.kulatsurdiu.co.uk/). The client brief entails providing a proposal for a bridal shop in a different site as the client seeks to expand her business.

Present site situation

The site that was given to us is presently a dead space which sits between a prominent thick black brick wall of Boots of Victoria centre and the side of argos outlet just along Lower parliament street, Nottingham. This is obviously a challenging site as there are many constraints and it would be interesting to see how I can address these site issues not only from a physical perspective but from an economic and social perspective as well.

WEEK 1: EXPLORATION OF TEXTILE MAKING IN RELATION WITH THE SITE

Tasks are allocated on weekly basis and the first task was to explore concepts and ideas related to textile making but confined within the site as a way of representing the first response to the brief.

I thought of different things to do but while searching the net for inspiration, I came across the idea of thread art and thread sculpting. Immediately, this connected me to the dress making process of stitching and I analysed some of these examples and interpreted them as 'creatively revealed stitching processes'. After this I began to explore with test models to see what I could come up with and if I could apply this idea to my site. I was also at the same time experimenting with colours to see what kind of effects I could get from it

Test and unfinished final models

I then decided to make the colours have a meaning, that is when I started to think of treating this as a preliminary architectural concept model where, the colours would represent different zones and functions of the proposed building and having curved characters to suggest a potential roof scape for the building.

Final piece

The final model was exhibited along with all the other models from the students. This I felt was a good way to introduce ourselves to the project. It was interesting to see a lot of abstract ideas which have a strong potential of significantly influencing the future design process.

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