Architectural Association Visiting School Milan has released works of its "Resilient Skin Code" research workshop, exploring new relationships and links between different disciplines, specifically between architecture and fashion design. 

AA Visiting School Milano was held in Milano between October 7-18, 2019, in conjunction with the Fall Milan design week. Resilient Skin Code was developed in collaboration with the Architectural Association and Politecnico di Milano.

The programme was directed by tutors Arantza Vilas, Francesca Silvi and Mattia Santi, while Gisella Veronese and Francesco Scullica were named as tutors for the Politecnico di Milano. 

A wearable mask design is one of the most challenging projects, which dissolves boundaries between architecture and fashion. Other works include; a wearable coat and other accessories that are designed with advanced computational skills with a form-finding attitude. 

The works include 3 projects; one of them was realized by Pleat-A-Morphosis, with team members Mariya Anishchenko, Irina Bălan, Katherine Guimapang, Aida Issakhankyzy, Arundika Weerasek, the other project by The Banned Mask HK with team members Hyunggyu Kim, Anastasia Bushkova, Tina Kalantary, Abdullah Alsanea, Jingyi Ge and the third project by Nomad Monad with team members Natalia Romero Muñoz, Gavril Adrian Balan, Ana Carolina Jimenez Rivas, Maria Carolina Rocha Bomeny.

The research focuses on the ergonomic scale, therefore the projects look at architecture in the form of a small scale structure, such a pavilion, and fashion in the form of a wearable construct and both are explored, in the eyes of sustainable criteria, to build a prototype which will lie somewhere between a shelter and a garment.

During the last two decades, both disciplines have been drawing influences from each other, in terms of form-finding processes, digital techniques, digital fabrication processes, material organization and more. 

These industries are in constant transformation and advancement; hence their relationships are in constant flux and relentless new formation.

In this workshop, students were invited to research this new formation by working collaboratively to construct a 3d manifestation of this new link, as a form of meaningful interventions.

Such interventions suggest an efficient way of installation and dismantling, exploring sustainable ideas aligning with environmental considerations, which are in the heart of current global concerns.

Students were exposed to new advanced computational skills, fabrication tools, form-finding, material manipulation, and current theoretical thinking, guided by professionals from the academic world and practitioners from both disciplines.

"Resilient Skin Code" facts

Head Programmes: Ilaria Di Carlo, Anat Stern

Tutors: Arantza Vilas, Francesca Silvi, Mattia Santi

Politecnico di Milano Collaborators: Gisella Veronese, Francesco Scullica

Sponsors: Ideas bit Factory | Feltum | Foglizzo

Projects:

Project: Pleat-A-Morphosis

Team: Mariya Anishchenko, Irina Bălan, Katherine Guimapang, Aida Issakhankyzy, Arundika Weerasek

Project: The Banned Mask HK

Team: Hyunggyu Kim, Anastasia Bushkova, Tina Kalantary, Abdullah Alsanea, Jingyi Ge

Project: Nomad Monad

Team: Natalia Romero Muñoz, Gavril Adrian Balan, Ana Carolina Jimenez Rivas, Maria Carolina Rocha Bomeny 

All images courtesy of AAVS Milan, Resilient Skin Code

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