myThread Pavilion: Generative Fabrication in Knitting Processes (2013)
article⁄myThread Pavilion: Generative Fabrication in Knitting Processes (2013)
abstract⁄Advancements in weaving, knitting and braiding technologies have brought to surface hightech and high performance composite fabrics. These products have historically infiltrated the aerospace, automobile, sports and marine industries, but architecture has not yet fully benefitted from these lightweight freeform surface structures. myThread, a commission from the Nike FlyKnit Collective, features knitted textile structures at the scale of a pavilion. The evolution of digital tools in architecture has prompted new techniques of fabrication alongside new understandings in the organization of material through its properties and potential for assemblage. No longer privileging column, beam and arch, our definition of architectural tectonics has broadened alongside advancements made in computational design. Internal geometries inherent to natural forms, whose complexity could not be computed with the human mind alone, may now be explored synthetically through mathematics and generative systems. Textiles offer architecture a robust design process whereby computational techniques, pattern manipulation, material production and fabrication are explored as an interconnected loop that may feed back upon itself in no particular linear fashion. The myThread Pavilion integrates emerging technologies in design through the materialization of dynamic data sets generated by the human body engaged in sport and movement activities in the city.
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| Year |
2013 |
| Authors |
Sabin, Jenny. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture |
| Pages |
347-354 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
mythread-pavilion |
