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Computational Textile Architectures

Felecia Davis

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Actar Publishers
01 October 2024

Mechanical engineering

Examines the role of communication through computational textiles used to create architecture made of lightweight textiles. Computational textiles are textiles that can sense and respond to the environment with embedded electronics and sensors. This transforming sensory information communicates something to people. It shapes the environment as well as our relations to textiles (as we know them) in ways that call for examination.

The purpose of the book is to examine the role of communication through computational textiles used to create architecture made of lightweight textiles. Computational textiles are textiles that can sense and respond to the environment with embedded electronics and sensors. The term computational textile is not my term but one that has been in use for textiles others call e-textiles, electronic textiles, or smart textiles. These textile systems sense their environment via digital electronic programming through microcontrollers and sensors or are programmed using the quality of the material itself in connection with environmental cues such as humidity, temperature and light.

Textiles operate as a mode of understanding the world and they bind us humans together as a species. Textiles are used in every culture on the planet, although we may use and make this material in different ways. In architecture, textiles made of animal skins or plant fibres were probably used to make the first shelters, as both protective clothing and enclosing space. As a liminal space between the body and environment these textiles became places of exchange and communication of information between people and their communities through shelter and clothing.

With the United States currently putting money into research on smart textiles and intelligent materials, there is a quiet revolution happening in the very textiles that can make up soft structures. These sensing textiles have a primary role communicating to us as occupants and as observers. Sensing textiles permit connection to an internet of things, and the overlay of other spaces, times and events onto a physical space. If we look back to Gottfried Semper's correlation of clothing with architecture in his treatise titled Style: The Textile Art (Semper 1989:104) then today's wearable technology made with computational textiles provides a way to understand the emergence of a new style of architecture. This transforming sensory information communicates something to people. It shapes the environment as well as our relations to textiles (as we know them) in ways that call for examination.

The author of this book uses four methods to examine some of the ways in which computational textiles are shaping the environment. First, the author of this book will provide a framework for understanding communication through digitally programmed textiles and describe new architectural concepts these digitally programmed textiles offer. Second, the author will provide a way for architectural and textile designers and others to consider tectonics of material and a tectonics of the digital network. Third, the author will provide four methods for hands-on practical design and construction of computational textiles. Fourth, the author will provide five architectural design case studies that I discuss and show how computational textiles systems are made. Each of the case studies demonstrates a different kind of textile system and design process, different material and digital tectonic set up and different concepts of communication. These design case studies reveal how computational textiles change the spaces we live in.

By: Felecia Davis
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781948765602
ISBN 10: 1948765608
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Felecia Davis is an Assistant Professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University and is the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. She has a PhD from the Design and Computation Group in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. She received her Master of Architecture from Princeton University, and her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Tufts University. Davis' work develops computational textiles or textiles that respond to commands through computer programming, electronics and sensors for use in lightweight architectural shelters, interior home goods or objects and wearables. Davis is interested in developing computational methods and design in relation to specific bodies in specific places engaging specific social, cultural and political constructions. Davis' work with SOFTLAB@PSU links art and science through the design of computational textiles and has been featured in a PBS/NPR broadcast feature titled Women in Science. Davis is principal in her own design firm FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO which has received several finalist awards for her architectural designs in open and invited design competitions. Felecia has lectured, taught workshops, published and exhibited her work in textiles, computation and architecture internationally, including the Swedish School of Textiles, Microsoft Research, and MIT's Media Lab.

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Felecia Davis

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