Blogs for Thinking and Making

There is a specific atmospheric aspiration I want to achieve for my chosen detail—the feeling of wandering in the forest with many trees...

I looked at the fabric surrounding one of the columns for my detail. It is an interesting detail because it is simple but complex to...

I mixed mesh and fabric to see how it works with only support and fabric; I tried to make this in the shape of the large tensile...

I wanted to include fabric in my wax experiments. So I decided to take a piece of fabric and dip it in the melted wax and then try to...

I experimented with different ways to make the fabric surround the columns and beams for my detail. I tried to stretch and nail down the...

The materials I will use for my design are mainly: Cork Tensile fabric is made from natural fibres such as rice husks or hemp. Steel...

Saga has had a long journey with a heavy backpack and sore feet, and she has finally arrived at Werifesteria, the camping hostel that...

You can transform any fibre into the fabric, making it a great material to experiment with. Fabric made from natural fibres is very...

Steel production is not the best for the environment because the production process lets out Carbon monoxide: CO, sulfur oxygen: SOx,...

A sustainable, eco-friendly, renewable material can be easily shaped in any form. The way cork is produced is through tough cork bark...

Starting from the beginning of recorded human time, human beings have always been seeking shelter, especially during the cold winters....

Taking my wax experimentation to a volume of the space to inform my design. By the start of this experiment, I had a clear idea of what I...

A material that fascinates me is the silk that silkworms and spiders produce. Silk as a material is solid and tough, and with the correct...

PVC has excellent strength, flexibility, translucency, and affordability compared to PTFE coated glass cloth and ETFE. The PVC coating is...

ETFE is a plastic material that is used for tensile structures. It can be chosen in different colours and translucences and it can also...

PTFE Coated Glass Cloth is a coated glass cloth and it is available in different strengths. The thicker fabrics normally have greater...

How does the human body or anatomy interact and work with design, materials, and nature? There are connections to draw between them? I...

When I started to research the detail more in detail I wanted to understand it by making some models of it. I started with a detail I...

During the field trip to London, there were many great sustainable and innovative material ideas. I particularly looked at fabrics and...

Explaining the site in words: Using the words and sentences to make 3D representations of the space: Thinking of steps and mountains as...