Archi-te(x)ture: Spatial Construction Through Fiber

Archi-te(x)ture: Spatial Construction Through Fiber

A Cross-Generational Dialogue Between Slow Craft Weaving and Digital Knitting

Archi-te(x)ture is conceived not as a single work but as a series of fiber-based explorations that investigate the evolving relationships between body, material, and space. The series unfolds through an ongoing dialogue between hand weaving and digital knitting, positioning textile as a medium where ancient craft and contemporary technology intersect, collide, and extend one another.

The series begins with hand-woven, skin-like textural sculptures that capture the pressure, rhythm, and irregular gestures of the fingertips. Each tactile fragment becomes a form of bodily notation—a record of weight, breath, tension, and the micro-movements that shape material from within. These fragments function not merely as studies of texture, but as repositories of embodied memory.

Building upon this foundation, the series employs digital knitting techniques to reinterpret, enlarge, distort, or re-architect these hand-crafted textures. Variations in density, apertures, tension, and fiber direction generate a growing system of textile structures—each work forming a distinct statement, while collectively composing a coherent textile language.

The title Archi-te(x)ture reflects the conceptual core of the series: textile is treated as a form of fiber architecture, where the body becomes a spatial measure, fibers act as interfaces, apertures function as windows, tension becomes structure, and layering creates containers of air. Through the accumulation and resonance among multiple works, the series continually examines the thresholds of throughness and translucency, questioning how light, air, and the body pass through or are held within textile structures.

Across the series, fiber is no longer confined to materiality or adornment. It becomes micro-architecture, spatial gesture, and a porous boundary between the body and its environment. Different works reassign weight, hold the body, alter posture, or evoke states of suspension—allowing the body to be lifted, enveloped, or remeasured through fiber.

Thus, Archi-te(x)ture Series presents more than a collection of woven forms. It proposes a fiber-based spatial logic, a way of constructing and perceiving space through tactility, porosity, and layered materiality. Through iterative development and variation, the series formulates a new syntax of textile construction—one that enables body, material, and space to breathe through one another, offering a vision of how textile can continue to evolve, resonate, and retain its warmth in the technological age.