Fashioning new structures

Fashion and architecture have historically been concerned with understanding the relationship between structure and skin (cloth and the body). With the developments and innovations occurring with materials sciences and technology this relationship is even more critical. Techniques traditionally associated with fashion and textiles are being used and transformed to create large scale lightweight sustainable structures in architecture. Fundamental to this advancement is collaboration and the need to take a multi disciplinary approach, as the project Composite Space involving fashion and textiles, architecture, business and aerospace engineering students at RMIT demonstrates. The disciplines of fashion and architecture are coming together through the use of textile design techniques, processes and materials.