KURBITCH! - BADA

INDEX
2 Index
3 Abstract, Keywords
4 -10 Images of work
11-17 Background
- Ornament vs. construction
- Ornamentation in architecture
from pre- to post modernism
- The ornaments’ recurrence
- Architecture and fashion
- Narciso Rodriguez
- Iris Van Herpen
- Giles Deacon
18-19 Aim
-Problem formulation
20 General methods
- Theory and practice
- The role of the artifact
- Experiment as method in design
21-23 Specific methods
- Ways of construction
- Draping on the body
- Kurbits
- Finding form
24-35 Development
- Starting point
- First succeeded experiment
- Light and the reflection of light
- Attracting the eye
- Material
- Extracts from workbook
- Handpainted kurbits on transparent
vinyl with florescent edges
- From figure to structure
- Trousers
- Stylized ornament
- Patterns
- Composition and dynamics
36 Materials
37- 51 Result
52 Discussion
- Evaluation of result
- Scale
- Potential and limitation of method
- “Less is a bore – more is more”
- Ornament or decoration
- Context
- Gaga-feminism
56-57 References
57 Thanks to
58 Appendix
ABSTRACT
In architecture we usually divide built things into structure or ornament. The same way of thinking
can be applied to fashion. First you have a construction (garment) and then you add an ornament, like
a way of styling. This works aim to change that relationship. One way of exploring the relation between
the two concepts is to subordinate structure under ornament in order to change the hierarchy between
form and decoration. Ornaments have in themselves structural elements that can be transformed into
construction. My aim is to find these and let them be the bearing structures when augmenting for new
shapes and expression with a codependent relationship between the two.
The concrete methods of this work have been carried out through experimentation with different
perspective on ornamentation in a trial and error process to achieve new expression and potential of
ornament.
The results are various examples of the design method carried out in different scale and proportions.
They show how the method could be used in a structural way to find form and a more pictorial way to
build expression. It questions modernistic thinking with its form follow function principle and explores
other values such as attraction of the eye and the expression of light reflective materials. It explores the
clash between tradition and new material.
A new discussion could be raised about what is construction and what is ornament, if a separation is
needed or even can be done.
KEYWORDS
Ornament, Structure, Fashion, Architecture, Design, Method,
Decoration, Construction, Kurbits, Expression, Light, Modernism,
Maximalism
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