Burke’s Playground

Translating the Tectonics of Fashion

Location: Orchard Road
Project Type: Individual Academic Work
Date: August - November 2020
Supervisor: Ar Chaw Chih Wen

Burke, a humble fashion designer experiments with sculptural fashion pieces through the medium of leather strips, weaving them together through rivet joineries. By juxtaposing this against Burke’s suburban lifestyle placed in a new urban setting, an architecture responsive to technique and site is formulated. Strips that emulate the schema manipulated in response to the structure, akin to the leather strips response to rivets. Movement, function all enveloped by the same set of techniques used in her pieces.

The studio methodology was to first encounter the materials and form making techniques. The manipulation of the leather strips was uncovered through careful analysis of each selection of clothing sets . Taking these discoveries and then translating them into an almost form fitting technique over the rituals that were fictionally proposed. Through a process of structural feasibility tests, implementing functional understanding of a home and a working studio, a building was proposed.

Heavily lending to the techniques used in the rivets and strips to form a structural system. The resulting proposal is an ode to technique and a system for the ritual to be captured in form.