Master thesis, 2018
Adaptive Structures – after nature is a material investigation resulting in the creation of a skin, displayed through a series of objects existing between art, architecture and design. This work translates the exploration of adaptive surfaces and structures into a tangible experience. Inspired by nature, the hybrid textile-plate embodies flexibility and malleability, akin to the fluidity of fish scales.
The installation challenges conventional hierarchies in art and design, using a process of reshaping through structural programming, incorporating recent research on self-assembling. The interrelation of material and form was
explored in a process of material investigations and experiments, in which a nuanced polygon structure was developed, which, counterintuitively, compacted and strengthened in response to stress, displaying auxetic
properties. These performative objects are non-fixed and and infinitely changeable interactive prototypes, and exist in themselves as epistemological objects.
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