Slow Furl

Description

Slow Furl is the making of a room size textile installation that acts and reacts on its inhabitation. The installation exists as a soft and pliable skin that lines the Lighthouse space. The skin shifts. As guests enter and move within the foyer, the skin moves imperceptibly at deep timeframes, creating new cavities and spaces, revealing slits and apertures.

The project explores the notion of flow. Rather than fixing the digital in a responsive relationship to the user, where every call defines a reply, Slow Furl finds its temporality outside the immediately animate. The thick skin envelops the space in a deep furl. Like a glacier, this robotic membrane, is formed by its slow action, reacting imperceptibly to its inhabitation.

Slow Furl has received funding from the Arts Council England, Lighthouse (Brighton) and RIBA (Sussex Branch) as well as the sponsorship of academic and industrial partners. We would like to thank the following institutions and companies for their invaluable help and support. University of Brighton, School of Design and Architecture, CITA, Centre for IT and Architecture,
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, WE Design CPH, Hobbs Construction Ltd, Heathcoat Ltd, Bernina Denmark and Automated Cutting Services.

INTERArChTIVE is a consortium of Lighthouse (Brighton), Architecture Centre Network, interactivearchitecture.org and RIBA (Sussex branch).

 

Emneord: digital crafting, digital fabrication, responsive architecture, intelligent programming, intelligent textiles, parametric design

”Slow Furl” en interaktiv arkitektur kommission for Lighthouse Galleriet, Brighton. CITA vandt InterARCHtive konkurrencen støttet at RIBA, Arts Council England og Architecture Center Network for at bygge Slow Furl en interaktiv installation. Projektet blev støttet af industrielle samarbejder med Heathcoat Ltd, Bernina, Odense og Hobbs Construction, København.

Period	15 Apr 2008 → 30 Jul 2008
Held at	Lighthouse Gallery, Brighton, UK, United Kingdom