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The storefront lighting gently backlit the tapestry, adding the glow that we found in the folly to the scale of the city. It was held up by a frame which we had designed to fit the facade, which we assembled and temporarily mounted on-site, without the need to make any modifications to the existing infrastructure. What was once hidden in black plastic garbage bags became a monumental skin, wrapping a real building. Fabric samples that once catalogued consumer trends now functioned as an architectural dressing, metamorphosed through colour and light. Each swatch creates a distinct moment, collectively forming a material archive of memory and labour that blurs the boundaries between architecture, fashion and art. Given sewing’s traditional association with feminine domesticity, this project celebrates an often undervalued craft as an agent of transformation. We believe that everything we need is already here, in the waste and in the overlooked. Our project is a celebration of softness and circularity, of the soul embedded in making, and the stories that materials carry. In an era where architecture is driven by cold efficiency and permanence, a softer architecture breathes and listens to its environment. It asks us to push the boundaries of what architecture can be: rooted in care, shaped by our hands, and deeply connected to the world around it. We imagine future architecture and urbanism assembled like a tapestry: utterly human and intuitively assembled. £
sierra duncan + chloe watkinson
all images: sierra dustin + chloë watkinson
SIERRA DUSTIN and CHLOE WATKINSON are students at McGill University’s Peter Guo-Hua Fu School of Architecture.
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