These two projects bring the interior to the foreground by investigating objects found within it. The conven- tions of architecture as heavy and interior objects light and mobile, are challenged here through the inter- change of drawing conventions that produce architecture, furniture and clothing.
Lightweight Architecture / Heavyweight Interiors LoisWeinthal
t he relationship between architecture and interiors can be seen as the container of the contained. The architecture comes first, and the interior follows. Architecture provides a structural grounding that establishes itself as a heavyweight container, whereby the contained objects on the interior are mobile, lighter in weight and structurally ungrounded. These temporary objects might include clothing, furniture, carpets and photographs. Two such items — a coat and chair, are chosen here for an investigation where one object gravitates towards the heavyweight and the other towards the lightweight.These two projects challenge the weight of architecture, allowing the concept of container to be re-defined in terms of the interior and allow the interior take priority over architecture. By choosing patterns and drawings as a starting point, the projects begin with ways of making, leaving the objects free to gravitate towards heavy or lightweight constructions, changing as they acclimate to their new weights. Here, clothing takes on characteristics of architecture while architecture approaches clothing. Clothing and Architecture Construction The French word poché , meaning pocket, can be found in both architec- ture and clothing construction.The pocket in clothing is an element, carefully tailored, which interrupts the surface of the garment, making an interior space. In architecture poché designates the thickness of walls, floors and ceilings that one cannot occupy, while simultaneously showing grounding to a site. Drawings for both architecture and cloth- ing follow parallel rules, with each discipline having established notations and conventions. With each, volume is constructed by piecing or keying together the the materials delineated by the drawings. But before the materials come together, they are unfolded, but not yet a volume. It is at this critical point that the drawing systems for architecture and clothing patterns reveal parallels between the disciplines, showing a potential to develop a dialogue between one another.
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