The project investigates the essence of textile-making through the development of an (almost) textile system which embraces the inherent textile qualities of slackness and softness to re-organise space and program. The knotted system holds on to, wraps itself, stretches between, and hangs off the site where it exists, while transforming its section. The artifact visually blurs its functional elements, making it useless in structural terms but useful in terms of program. The fundamentals of textile – chords, knots, tools and the body – are combined to choreograph a set of new situations from existing ones. The lack of familiar structural qualities – volume, stiffness, stability – are central to the system's capacity to transcend the conventions of space. It is not space, but it is spatial. It is not structure, but it is structuring. Rather than thinking how to stiffen textile into a wall, we instead take on the existence of the wall itself.
What can be extracted from textile to change our understanding and experience of program and space?