I was so impressed by the exiting product of BMW GINA. What a great idea! Since the skin won't help much in any crash, why not using a cloth which is cheaper, lighter, easier to make and replace? That is the motivation behide GINA, which remind me one of our design scheme of AND, an inflatable dynamic structure capable to transform itself. GINA prooves our idea of stretchable fabric used as architecture skin controled by a dynamic skeleton inside. Since architecture is getting more and more temporary, why not using fabric to be the skin?
Here is our AND scheme, which uses tension fabric as inflatable cells to form a dynamic surface.
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actually we can have one category to study fabric skin for architecture. AND is a bit too ambitious. We can also explore some other light and dynamic structure covered by stretchable fabric skin. At one hand, it will cost less energy to produce, on the other hand, it is short life span, easy to replace, perfect for the future uncertainty. Maybe we should find another competition to test our idea.
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