bundling developed by the populations of Lake Titicaca) to support a new concept of market stall/ swarm market infrastructure. The deployable structure shades while concentrating solar energy to offset local extreme temperature fluctuations. Local techniques and expertise were channelled through a set of diagrammatic constructions and finally realised as large-scale prototypes: the totora model, for instance, loads hundreds of years of development in local bundling techniques of totora reeds onto a parametric splines diagram; the result, a bundled structure pushed to extremes of slenderness and deployability, was tested in a local market generating strong reaction and interaction from the local people. Nobody could predict or even imagine the outcome beforehand and the final model was literally the non-linear product of a consistent transfer of information, matter and energy across traditional boundaries of language, culture, geography and technical expertise. Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto are Unit Masters of Intermediate Unit 10 and Directors of the Fibrous Structures Workshop
Left and below: Fibrous Room, Garanti Gallery, Istanbul
Laleper Aytek
Sponsors: Aqva Garden: Tenax srl; Tea Rose srl Fibrous Room: La Farge
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