Woven façade

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Project • By pejman tayebi • Apartments

woven curtain apartment

This project was an ordinary Urban residential apartment, located in a populated city in Iran. The windows of the units had a view of the neighbors in front. it had a bad view.  pejman tayebi Maybe we could just leave it up to the residents of the building to solve the problem. to cover the windows with a curtain, because when we walk around the city, we see that in most apartments, the curtains are always closed. pejman tayebi But the question of the project was: Can this curtain be moved from inside to outside? Is it possible to put a shell layer on the facade? Caption   For the shell, we first went to the usual ordinary materials. But we found that adding a second layer blocked the light quite a bit. The only... More

News • Detail • 2 Nov 2023

Detail: Woven carbon and glass fiber facade of Texoversum School of Textiles

The Texoversum School of Textiles at Reutlingen University is a teaching, research, and innovation center. The new Texoversum building is part of a wider university campus expansion plan and features a highly expressive, cutting-edge woven facade. A collaboration between Munich-based architectural practice Allmannwappner, Frankfurt-based architectural practice Menges Scheffler Architekten, and Stuttgart-based structural engineers Jan Knippers Ingenieure, Texoversum is the first building of its kind with a facade of woven carbon and glass fiber tiles. The remarkable structure places textiles in the vanguard of technological development. Brigida Gonzalez allmannwappner The design theme of Texoversum School of Textiles is re... More

News • News • 18 Sep 2023

White Crane Lake Visitor Center introduces a modern architecture that sensitively co-exists with the natural landscape

Located adjacent to Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, the White Crane Lake Visitor Center by Archperience Design is the centrepiece of a comprehensive development initiative for the region. The modern building, aimed at increasing tourism, accommodates many functional requirements within an ambitious 3,000 square meter area and balances a desire to sensitively co-exist with the surrounding landscape of forests, mountains, and the ten square kilometre lake.  Jianghe Zeng Archperience Design took on the project to apply a kind of poetic imagination derived from nature to the new building. The building site is located on a tidal flat and surrounded by the lake to the site's north, south and west sides. There is an extensive bamboo... More