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1	There Is Softness Hidden in Your Walls : A Material Exploration Uncovering the Textile Elements in Building Construction Salvall, Lisa January 2023 (has links) A wall might appear as basic, a clean surface without an identity of its own, nothing but a clean slate upon which to leave any impression. Though the walls surrounding us are all but anonymous. They are built with a structure making them stand tall and strong. They are filled with insulation to keep us warm and sheltered. They are hard and they are soft. They can allow us to isolate ourselves from each other or they are fragile enough to let us know someone is on the other side. They cover the basic necessities of our houses, and we in return cover them to make our spaces less anonymous. There is softness hidden in your walls mainly aims to highlight the textile components of architecture which we usually never see. While we tend to view textiles mostly as decoration, they constantly perform in a lot of various ways all around us. In this project I have worked with prefabricated building materials that according to me have textile qualities, but they aren’t viewed as textile. Or I have tried to adapt textile techniques to non-textile materials to test them in new ways. The wall as the leading actor has first and foremost been used as a conversation partner for the material exploration and contextualization. The main material used is wool sheep insulation though many other materials have been put to the test throughout the process. Textile Architecture Building components Insulation Walls Material hierarchies Interiority Spatial design Interior architecture Soft structure Interior design Smocking Weaving Dressing Cladding Affection theory Manipulating fabric Aesthetics Borders New Materialism Architecture Arkitektur Design Design

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There Is Softness Hidden in Your Walls : A Material Exploration Uncovering the Textile Elements in Building Construction