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FABRIC FORMING: UNDERSTANDING THE METHOD
Fabric form making can be understood as a response, perhaps an evolution, to traditional concrete construction.
By hybridizing both technologies - concrete casting and fabric forming - new possibilities of construction emerge, possibilities that explore the inherent qualities of both. Concrete, for example, is a material that is naturally solid, dense, strong and stubbornly permanent. Thus, contrasted with the qualities of fabric - soft, free-forming ephemeral material - one, then, can exploit this combination resulting in a frozen dynamism and conjuring a dualism between both opposites.
Conceptually and practically, this method is questioning our traditional conception of what it is to make and assemble. Since the early 1950’s, modern architects architects have expanded these questions by reconsidering the role of form. Thus, the following is a collection of images by designers grappling with this method.
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Erwin Hauer, Austrian born sculptor, began, in the 50’s, to explore infinite continuous surfaces. From these, perforated modular structures developed that lent themselves to architectural usage. He continued to develop these patented designs along with the technology to produce them, and installed the modular, light-diffusing walls in buildings throughout the United States and seven other countries. These designs are listed in domus 1928-1999 among the quintessential works of modernism.
ERWIN HAUER WALL DESIGN III, NURBS MODEL
ERWIN HAUER WALL II, CONSTRUCTION 1953
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