FABRIC[ated] Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in Architecture

1 Introduction

Tolya Stonorov

FOUNDATION AND THEORY

2 The Philosophy of Fabric Innovation in Architecture

Christopher Bardt

3 Digital Fabrication and Fabric Innovation

Jane Scott

4 The Sustainability of Lightweight Structures

Timo Carl

5 The Art and Science of Fabric Forming

Eleanor D’Aponte

CASE STUDIES

6 VEILING: GENDER, FABRIC AND WOVEN STRUCTURES

Academic Inquiry

6A Seaming: The Fabrication of Keswa

Emily Baker

6B Translation: Female Garment to Architecture

Tolya Stonorov

6C Pipeline Resistance and Feminist Spatial Practice

Erin Moore

6D GEO|TEXTILES: Weaving Restoration Ecology and Cultural Narratives

Emily Vogler

6E Weaving a Home

Abeer Seikaly

Professional Inquiry

6F Communal Architecture: A More Finely Calibrated Set of Relationships. A conversation with Florian Idenburg

7 Compression: Fabric Formed Concrete and Dense Applications

Academic Inquiry

7A Spacer Fabric Pavilion—Advanced 3D Textile Applications in Architecture

Johanna Beuscher and Claudia Lüling

7B Lightweight Cable-net and Fabric Formwork System for the HiLo Unit at NEST

Tom Van Mele, Juney Lee and Philippe Block

7C The Flexible Way

Mark West

Professional Inquiry

7D Form-Finding the MARS Pavilion

Joseph Sarafian and Ron Culver 

8 Tension: Tensile Structures and Inflatables

Academic Inquiry

8A Fabric[ating] Act[ivat]ion

Antje Steinmuller

8B Hollygrove Shade-Water Pavilion

Judith Kinnard, Irene Keil and Nick Jenisch

Professional Inquiry

8C AirDraft

Thomas Randall-Page

8D PATCHWORKS: A Report from Three Fabricated Futures

Juan Frano Violich

9 Outcomes + Conclusion

Tolya Stonorov

Biography

Tolya Stonorov is Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of Norwich University’s School of Architecture + Art. Tolya has practiced design-build since 2006, when she co-founded her design-build collaborative firm, Stonorov Workshop. She has received multiple awards for excellence for her professional and academic work from the American Institute of Architects’ New England and Vermont chapters, among others. In addition, she received the Vermont Women in Higher Education Peggy Williams Award for her teaching and scholarship. Tolya gives lectures and participates in symposium panels nationally and internationally. Her latest book, The Design-Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education, was published in 2017 by Routledge.

'FABRIC[ated] situates the historical, theoretical, and etymological roots of textiles in contemporary architectural research, practice, and discourse to substantiate the important role that fabric has as an active and pliable interface for transformation, resiliency, and change in architecture. Moving fluidly between research and practice, the book surveys academic experiments in studio pedagogy to 1:1 full-scale built projects. Through critical essays and case study projects that span gender and expression to minimizing waste through fabric formwork and digital fabrication, FABRIC[ated] positions textiles as a timely and innovative contributor to sustainable, responsive, and socially driven architecture at a time of ecological and sociopolitical crisis. FABRIC[ated] provides a fresh look at the historically intertwined relationships between textiles and architecture to open new design and fabrication strategies, digital methods, material efficiencies, and collaborative models to address pressing issues in our built and natural environments.' - Jenny E. Sabin, Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean for Design; Director, Sabin Lab; Department of Architecture / AAP, Cornell University; Principal, Jenny Sabin Studio; President, ACADIA

'FABRIC[ated] is a surprising and stimulating compilation of thoughts and experiences that vindicate the transcendence and possibilities of fabric and membranes in the future of architecture and society. A first part develops the theoretical framework underlying the academic and professional experiences that are presented in the second part, so that the case studies do not appear as a miscellany of remarkable curiosities, but rather as contributions to interdisciplinary, sustainable and digitalized innovations engaged with people to contribute to a positive society.' - Josep I. de Llorens Duran, Senior Professor, School of Architecture, Barcelona, Author: Fabric Structures in Architecture

'If architecture is to be understood as a third skin, as has been described, then a closer relationship between building and clothing—the so-called second skin—is in order. In Fabric[ated], Tolya Stonorov assesses the expansive capacities of textiles in architecture. Through invited essays, case studies, interviews, and documented experiments, she constructs a broad and compelling depiction of fabric innovation in the designed environment. As we scrutinize many aspects of construction and resource use today, FABRIC[ated] reveals how buildings can be more flexible, interactive, and imaginative—and embody a smaller footprint.' - Blaine Brownell, FAIA LEED AP, Professor and Director, Ravin School of Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

'There is a revolution happening in architectural materials. Not many years ago, there were five groups that covered the field: metal, wood, masonry, concrete and glass. Now new options such as printed ceramics and engineered wood have been increasing the opportunities of built solutions. Tolya Stonorov’s new publication, FABRIC[ated], thoroughly introduces and explores the history and exciting possibilities of fabric, a material that offers a wide range of spatial solutions. Importantly these go beyond form-making to consider potential positive impacts of social justice and sustainability at a time when these are greatly needed.' - Bryan Bell, Executive Director, Design Corps, Professor, NC State University, Co-Founder, SEED Network