Thursday, April 19, 2007

fabric_ cindy moon

The using the word fabric seems so different in architecture and fashion. In fashion, fabric is about how fashion could be expressed and in urban and architectural view, it’s about the organization of city.
The Quinn’s article mentioned that the production and consumption of space could come from fashion industry. And the fabric of city could be all about form, system of common urban life.

In addition to the meaning of fabric as skin, urban fabric system could also show the concept of ’trasformation over tine takes place Hertzberger, 55). The basic concept of fabric shows the history of city. ‘The Venetian fabric as a coherent whole : it is composed of parts created in different but akin to one another’ (Hertzberger, 60) Merging the time of confliction between gothic and renaissance, the article said we could easily find out parts of city as different in shape, but similar in sturctire. It expressed to living field as it shows relationship between individual architecture space and urban context.

Also fabric is not just appearance but the space of living life. There are so many possibility to change the environmental fabric for citizen. Users are born, live an die in urban space and while they use the space, they change, adapt and translate the space. (Hertzberger, 63) All the phenomenon could change the fabric of space and also it affect the our life

Usually fabric seems to be 2-d appearance in city. And it could be read as form or shape of space. However, the form or shape could be translated for our use of space and it also affects urban fabric. So that’s the reason why Pompidou center which broke the flow or urban appearance is weird in Paris, but also it became the part of city currently because people use and translate it to adapt contemporary part with old historical spaces.

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