The Bouncing Patterns project, initiated in 2017, enhances the sensitive relationship between 3D woven surfaces and dynamic forms. Using the inherent cussedness of combined fibers and pattern structures, it generates three-dimensionality within the textile itself, as well as in the space it inhabits.
The act of bouncing is a perpetual movement. It relates to the tactile elasticity of this particular textile, which reflects a force back when it comes into contact with another object. The multilayer hollow structure is lightweight, stiff yet flexible. These features make it self-supporting and endlessly transformable, following folding or compressing methods.
While challenging industrial Jacquard technologies, the research allows to shorten the production process, to reduce textile wastes and to create a durable design both visual and technical. The textile is ready to use when cut from the loom.
Graphical, rhythmic and also practical, they become functional raw materials, with various insulating properties relevant to interior design. As a transitional component between body and space, a single textile panel is able to filter light, heat, sound or shock, without using any reinforcing or filing material. In reference to fabric as the main building material of primitive nomadic habitats, Bouncing Patterns become sculptural and structural elements.
