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Feel It, Take It!
Feel It, Take It!
141, Division Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Feel It, Take It!
141, Division Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Can we disperse a ceiling, piece by piece, across a city? We’d like
to think so. The Functionality has designed a new
scarf--140 of them, in fact. Our new installation Feel It,
Take It is composed of 140 distinct cnc-cut recycled felt
scarves designed to nest together and transform into a shell-like wool
finished ceiling. At the closing party the space is disrobed and each
uniquely numbered scarf is removed from above and given to a partygoer.
By the end of the evening the installation will metamorphose into
personal fashion. Leaving on the shoulders of people visiting the
installation the scarves are disseminated out of the gallery and into
the city.
Feel It, Take It takes an everyday product
sold by street vendors and “hot rods” it into an architectural
surface. Using procedural modeling software, we were able to digitally
prototype the installation by analyzing the hanging span of each scarf,
and letting gravity do the rest. We avoided the physical production of
construction and fabrication drawings altogether. Rather, we used only
the digital model to coordinate the fabrication and installation of the
tensile support and the membrane of scarves.
This installation integrates a ceiling system with a method for
distributing elements of thermal comfort. When the installation ends, we
want the material we used to avoid the landfill and to find its way
into the lives and onto the bodies of people walking on streets, riding
on subways, hailing cabs. Can we design multiple purposes into one
system? When it's cold, everyone needs a scarf when there's no roof
overhead.
to think so. The Functionality has designed a new
scarf--140 of them, in fact. Our new installation Feel It,
Take It is composed of 140 distinct cnc-cut recycled felt
scarves designed to nest together and transform into a shell-like wool
finished ceiling. At the closing party the space is disrobed and each
uniquely numbered scarf is removed from above and given to a partygoer.
By the end of the evening the installation will metamorphose into
personal fashion. Leaving on the shoulders of people visiting the
installation the scarves are disseminated out of the gallery and into
the city.
Feel It, Take It takes an everyday product
sold by street vendors and “hot rods” it into an architectural
surface. Using procedural modeling software, we were able to digitally
prototype the installation by analyzing the hanging span of each scarf,
and letting gravity do the rest. We avoided the physical production of
construction and fabrication drawings altogether. Rather, we used only
the digital model to coordinate the fabrication and installation of the
tensile support and the membrane of scarves.
This installation integrates a ceiling system with a method for
distributing elements of thermal comfort. When the installation ends, we
want the material we used to avoid the landfill and to find its way
into the lives and onto the bodies of people walking on streets, riding
on subways, hailing cabs. Can we design multiple purposes into one
system? When it's cold, everyone needs a scarf when there's no roof
overhead.
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