Beskrivelse
In the recent decade, the potential of knitting, through its ability for surface structural grading, has promoted investigations towards its application in architecture. The advancements in fabrication and computational technologies have enabled the transfer of CNC-knitting to the scale of construction. This enabled the formation of an emerging field of knitted structural membranes, where the textile is employed in tension and materially differentiated according to the structural performance.The knitted structural membranes, force-driven in their shape, have a lot in common with the woven structural membranes, that are already widely used in architecture. Like wovens, knitted surfaces take a minimal shape under tension, creating a thin layer of a spatial boundary. However, the biggest difference between these two textile structural systems lies in their fiber arrangement. Unlike a linear fibrous system of wovens, knitted structural membranes offer a fibrous system of interconnected loops. With this, the material composition, encoded in the knitting pattern, can be controlled at loop scale, steering the membrane's overall stretch performance, determined by the relations to the textile support and pre-tension conditions.
The following workshop aims to introduce the students to the digital tools for design, structural and geometrical evaluation, and material differentiation of graded CNC-knitted membranes. In the two-week of interdisciplinary activities spanning digital design and textile fabrication, students will explore the relationship between digitally simulated artifacts and physically produced equivalents. The participants will be working with digital form-finding and tension analysis in order to determine the knitting pattern to be used to fabricate the graded textile membranes at the industrial CNC-knitting machine. Produced membranes will be suspended, loaded with the weights for pretension and 3d scanned for the recording of the shape. Scan data will be then linked back to the digital environment for further calibration of the graded simulation.
| Periode | 3 okt. 2022 → 14 okt. 2022 |
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| Begivenhedstype | Workshop |
| Placering | Copenhagen, DanmarkVis på kort |
| Grad af anerkendelse | Lokal |