Immaterial Ultramaterial, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Drawing on the historic links
between architecture and
textiles, thin plywood and
rubber team up to borrow




 techniques from apparel design to discover a new category of tectonic relationships.
Simultaneously working with and against the nature of their chosen materials, the students attempted to exacerbate the materials’ spatial, tactile and experiential potential, importing manufacturing techniques to give syntactic and tailored precision to the illustrations’ various edges, seams and connections.
Pleating, darting and tabbing give structural rigidity and formal precision to their respective installations.