Abstraction of Traditional Crafts into Expressive Sustainable Architecture
Socio-cultural aspects of craft, along with aesthetic and creativity, are expressed in the products of craft practices. Craft activities of weaving may be deeply imbued with unique cultural values and expressive of cultural identities. The paper concerns how traditional Malay craft is abstract...
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Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA)
2021
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/95071/1/95071_Abstraction%20of%20Traditional%20Crafts.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/95071/2/95071_Abstraction%20of%20Traditional%20Crafts_proceeding.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/95071/ |
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Summary: | Socio-cultural aspects of craft, along with aesthetic and creativity, are expressed in
the products of craft practices. Craft activities of weaving may be deeply imbued with unique
cultural values and expressive of cultural identities. The paper concerns how traditional Malay
craft is abstracted onto a real-life project which has to deal with the problem of modularity
and buildability. The focus is on the food covers or better known as tudung saji pattern, woven
using a specific technique called triaxial or hexagonal weave, where the strands are plaited in
three directions. Understanding and making explicit, formalizing and computing the craft
patterns provide new insights into its cultural dynamics as well as creative and generative
possibilities. The paper summarizes the design process from craft to meaning and philosophy
to variations of modern abstraction. The concepts were integrated into an innovative cladding
design of a passive cooling system. The design and development process of water-wall design
includes the production of digital three-dimensional model. The efforts to merge craft
sensibilities and practices with new making technologies and computational strategies have
uncovered several interesting viewpoints. |
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