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Textile structures for building competition names winners

20 Apr '15

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A panel of experts including structural engineers and architects has awarded seven prizes and one special commendation for the student competition titled, ‘Textile structures for new building’.

The category of Materials Innovation was awarded three prizes, two prizes each for Composites and Hybrid Structures, as well as for Macro Architecture' and a special commendation for a project in Micro Architecture.

First prize in the 'Macro Architecture' went to Aviary at Bujalacayado, Guadalajara, who has swathed existing buildings in the Spanish province of Guadalajara with aviaries, in order to bring new life to abandoned villages.

The aviaries are constructed using rope, whilst the envelope is achieved with a translucent bioclimatic textile façade, which emits a faint blue shimmer.

The second prize was also awarded to a Spanish project that goes by the name of Cytomorphic Mutations.

“A second textile skin for existing buildings makes it possible to regulate heat, light and the input of ventilation air more easily, and to provide shade,” the prize winner tried to prove.

In Materials Innovations, the Chromosonic project bagged the first prize from a Hungarian student who 'visualised the acoustics' by creating an electrical current from the sound source.

The electrical current warms the material which then reacts visibly and if an observer touches the material these processes can be manipulated.

The second prize in this category was awarded to the French project LOOP, who showed that three-dimensional structures can be formed using individual textile materials.

The modular units can then be used to create structural elements such as walls, corners or curtains.

The third prize went to Electronics in nonwovens from a Belgian final-year student who designed a hybrid material, which encloses a woven fabric which can have a variety of functions, between two layers of outer skin.

As a result, conductive fibres, or fibres with active sensor functionality and with light sources can be woven into a network. When the materials are separated, the functionality remains.

In the Composites and Hybrid Structures category, the first prize was bagged by project from the University of Stuttgart.

Breathing Skins presented a room enclosure not as a barrier, but rather as an active medium, allowing interchange.

Variable perforations in the extremely light building envelope regulate the exchange of ventilation air, the surface temperatures and the distribution of light and sound.

The second prize was awarded to the Rolled Wall project in which a German student designed a textile sheathing system for a double-skinned concrete wall with internal heat insulation sandwiched between them.

Because of its flexibility and the limited weight of the textiles, sheathing and padding involved, the system saves space when transported to the building site as a ‘rolled wall’.

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