Student creations of wearable architecture featured at international exhibition – UBNow: News and views for UB faculty and staff

Love this video fashion clearly show of wearable architecture created by college students in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning.

Wearable assemblies of folded paper and 3D-printed resin produced by UB architecture students were on exhibit this summer in Hong Kong as part of an exhibition exploring expanding definitions of vogue.

The structural clothing — including towering headgear, intricate limb bands and resplendent shirt-skirt mixtures termed “sh/kirts” — had been created as aspect of a graduate architecture media seminar thinking of the intersection of trend and architecture. The class, made available very last drop, was directed by architecture school customers Gregory Serweta and Maia Peck.

“Archi-texture” was put in at the Hong Kong Design and style Center’s landmark Design and style Spectrum as part of “The Comprehensive Gamut” exhibition. Curated by Robert Wu and Vivienne Yu, Comprehensive Gamut explored the boundaries of fashion structure through installations by graphic designers, textile artists, and product or service and spatial designers, ranging from window displays and commercials to inclusive style and design and the tradition of fashion. The exhibition ran from May possibly by means of July and was held in the Sham Shui Po district, a common hub for wholesale and retail of garments and fabric.

Serweta, a registered architect, and Peck, along with architecture college member Lukas Fetzko, built the seminar to use the physique as a website of investigation for core principles in architectural media. By way of arms-on workshops, pupils investigated the historical past of graphic representation of the human overall body inside the architectural canon and the dialectics of ornamentation, creating abilities in 3D-modeling and printing, primary rendering, electronic/hybrid illustration, submit-processing, animation and CNC milling.

According to the faculty curators, ornamentation of the overall body and objects has innovated the arts during historical past. From antiquity to now, people have sought to adorn by themselves and their surroundings — as a demonstration of authority or power or self-expression — to enact get upon mother nature, or even for the sheer pleasure of embellishment.

For a lot of of the projects, college students utilized paper to understand the connection of two-dimensional planes and a few-dimensional modeling by converting planes to sorts. “Paper is a content with infinite conformal modeling potential,” Serweta and Peck say, “and its houses differ fully, relying on how it is processed, this kind of as as a result of folding, pleating or creasing.”

For occasion, in creating the headgear, the style begins with a aircraft that is morphed into 3-dimensional type as it confronts gravity or satisfies with the human overall body. In producing the limb bands, learners figured out about innovative curvilinear and surface geometries by developing patterned 3D-printed bands sized to their own physique. The creation of the “sh/kirts” was both of those an workout in specialized ability and style innovation as pupils blended 3D printing, 2D template era and complex procedures of paper manipulation to create a novel garment.

The “Archi-texture” program culminated its second “season” with a vogue show very last April that includes the semester’s newest line of pupil-designed wearables, CNC-milled foam seatscapes and projected animations.

As an growth of the “Archi-texture” exhibit in Hong Kong, Serweta and Peck produced a workshop for children to assemble “headwear” from pre-geared up, laser-reduce paper templates initially created by UB students. The workshop was led by their Hong Kong-primarily based associate, Kirin + Lab.