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Burke’s Playground
Translating of the Tectonics of Fashion
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Orchard Road
Individual Academic Work
Year 2, Design 3
August - November 2020
Ar. Chaw Chih Wen
Burke, a humble fashion designer experiments with sculptural fashion pieces through the medium of leather strips, weaving them together through rivet joineries. By juxtaposing this against Burke’s suburban lifestyle placed in a new urban setting, an architecture responsive to technique and site is formulated. Strips that emulate the schema manipulated in response to the structure, akin to the leather strips response to rivets. Movement, function all enveloped by the same set of techniques used in her pieces.
The studio methodology was to first encounter the materials and form making techniques. The manipulation of the leather strips was uncovered through careful analysis of each selection of clothing sets . Taking these discoveries and then translating them into an almost form fitting technique over the rituals that were fictionally proposed. Through a process of structural feasibility tests, implementing functional understanding of a home and a working studio, a building was proposed.
Heavily lending to the techniques used in the rivets and strips to form a structural system. The resulting proposal is an ode to technique and a system for the ritual to be captured in form.
^ Probe 1: Body In Space
Identifying the fashions relationship with the body, observing the hidden “lines” and the navigation of the piece around the body.
^ Probe 2: Assemblage and Thresholds
Taking a closer look into the lines identified. Observing where the pieces terminate and its proximity to the body in that moment.
^ Form Experiments Generated from imposing rituals onto the site
Video Link: https://youtu.be/EOndtSLQrBs
