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The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the potentials of textile architecture through a multi-layered study of the knitting technique and to show how the pre-programmed surface pattern affects the global geometry while being inflated for creating an architectural space.
Textiles were much underestimated in the past years as the material system for construction due to the structural self-supporting lack. The integration of the third element into the textiles can definitely compensate this absence and introduce textiles to the physical realm of architecture and construction.
A knitted garment is a very complex fiber system with different areas with various properties merging with each other. The textile object is born in one continuous process of creation and manipulation. It reaches its final form in a relatively short time, ready to be installed and used. The questions we seek to answer are: What happens if we translate properties of knitted textiles to the architectural level? What if we convert the richness of the textile formation methods to building methods?
ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2015: Knitflatable Architecture - Pneumatically Activated Pre-Programmed Knitted Textile Spaces
Yulia Baranovskaya
Thesis Advisers: Moritz Dörstelmann, Marshall Prado
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Achim Menges
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers