While looking for an appropriate view of my interior space and how my furniture would appear I found Jenna Didier’s Liquid Façade. I felt that her textile and shapes developed on the surface just by stretching fabric is organic, innovative and look relaxing.
The project was made in 2020 in Materials & Applications (M &A), Los Angeles CA. Materials used are stretch Lycra, fiberglass rods 35’/25’ /3’.
Inspired by the wrapped buildings of Christo and Jeanne-Claude and the stretch fabric interiors of Gisela Stromeyer, this facade presented a reverse unveiling of the new architecture and landscape research center, Materials & Applications, programmed at night by rear-projected video. ( Atelier DIDIER , 2002)
Jenna’ s statement is inspirational and gives the idea of responsibility art must follow. Jenna Didier says:
‘My strategy is to seek tangible forms to expose habits of use or environmental factors that are not immediately perceptible. I begin by researching underlying geological, ecological, and historical conditions at a site. I trace air currents, solar paths, weather patterns. I observe native flora, fauna, the flow of people, information, and resources. Discovering needs, I respond by stacking functions to solve as many concerns as possible. This has manifested as built machines in addition to founding public platforms for experimentation and debate.’ (Jenna Didier, 2002)
When I was thinking about my project I came to an absurd idea of making even the floor out of tensile fabric while covering structures to give just an idea of furniture. It was a really brave idea and creating the model was a pleasure but in real life only a few people would experiment to check in such hotel room. Artist like Didier give you space where you feel free to create.
Materials & Applications’ 25-by-40-foot outdoor exhibition space, just off of Los Angeles’s Silver Lake Boulevard, is nothing much fancier than a repurposed front garden. However, in its nearly 10 years of existence, nonprofit founder Jenna Didier, 41, and her co-director Oliver Hess, 38, have made that gravel yard a 24/7 laboratory for experimental architecture. Didier always knew that she wanted a place where innovative and emerging artists and designers could collaborate on new ideas for public space. “Architects seemed to understand its purpose intrinsically and began right away to propose ideas,” she says. (Zeiger, 2011)
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