Fibrous Ambiguity
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Team member: Zunheng Lai, Jun Wang
Critic: Achim Menges
From tiny electronic equipment to massive airplane shell, fiber composite material has been used across scale in many industries. However, fiber composite material has been only use as a lighter, thinner and stronger substitute to many industrial standard material, such as aluminum. During such process, material is “forced” onto a preconceived form without further consideration to its special characteristic.
Working with Professor Achim Menges, our project tries to showcase the potential spatial performance of fiber composite material by exploring new spatial language, going back to the innate character of the material, understanding what it is and what it wants to become.
Scaffold, fiber and space form our methodology of investigation. Testing various scaffolds with different algorithms of weaving, we study the type of space and its relationship to the scaffolds. We then reversely derive the intent space from the manipulation of scaffolds, forming an integrated abstract linguistic system.