Soft Shells: Porous and Deployable Architectural Screens - Softcover

Vyzoviti, Sophia

9789063692698: Soft Shells: Porous and Deployable Architectural Screens

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ISBN 10: 9063692692 ISBN 13: 9789063692698

Publisher: BIS Publishers, 2011

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Soft Shells focuses on porous and deployable architectural screens creatied by using four basic techniques: cut, pleat, tile, and weave. The projects are beautifully photographed with step-by-step images to explain the design process. This new book by Sofia Vysofiti will be very useful for design courses and workshops.

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About the Author

Sophia Vysivoti is an architect and has taught Design Method at the Architectural Faculty of the TU in Delft, the Netherlands. She is now Adjunct Lecturer at University of Thessaly, Greece

From the Back Cover

Soft Shells is a follow-up title to Sophia Vyzoviti's bestselling books, Folding Architecture and Supersurfaces. Where Folding Architecture explored folding as a design method in architecture, and Supersurfaces showed experiments in a fusion design field between product design, fashion and architecture, the new Soft Shells investigates textile as a retro-novel architectural device which is porous and deployable.

The book is lavishly illustrated with form experiments and has three essays that provide the reader with a state-of-the-art context for the architectural discourse on formgenerative surface.