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Built by light – an architectural research of light phenomena in textiles
Visit to The Swedish School of Textiles, September 24-28, 2012
Astrid Mody
Architect MAA, PhD student
The research project is a cooperation between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, School of Architecture and Philips Corporate Technologies, Research (The Netherlands).
Built by light builds on Mark Garcia’s terminology of “Textilisation of architecture” and “Architecturalisation of textiles” (2006, pp. 5-12), which describes “a textile way of thinking and doing architecture” and “an architectural way of thinking and doing textile design”, and introduces the phenomena of “Textilisation of light” and “Architecturalisation of light” as conceptual approaches to identify and characterize design variables for design with textiles and future lighting technologies as e.g. LEDs in an architectural context.
One part of the aim of the research is to develop principles for future architectural components and another is to formulate a cross-disciplinary language to describe these phenomena, mediating between the different practices and relating to the different parts of the design process.
Astrid Mody
Architect MAA, PhD student
astrid.mody@kadk.dk, astrid.mody@philips.com
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
School of Architecture
Philip de Langes Allé 10
DK-1435 Copenhagen K
www.karch.dk/uk
Philips Corporate Technologies, Research (The Netherlands)
www.research.philips.com