Eragatory

Post-McQueen embryos - Haute (cul)ture | AA School Paris March '12

2012-02-17T01:21:00.008-08:00

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential and provocative designers of his generation. His clothing challenged the generic and conventional parameters of fashion to express culture, politics, identity. McQueen saw beyond clothing design physical constraints its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, gender, religion, sexuality and environment. During AA School Paris Spring 2012, McQueen’s evolutionary design will act as prompts for embryos’ naissance within the [Fashion+Architecture] body of work.

Within a framework of 10 days-germination, AA school Paris participants will take part of a collective embryo-genesis engaging McQueen’s DNA and legacy onto a novel and crucial debate about fashion in the Post-McQueen Era.

Featuring the most iconic and radical designs of his prolific career, AA embryos will grow and develop a self-intelligent état d’âme informed by a set of social, contextual, operational and performative parameters, such as: mass production driven by advanced capitalism; temperature variations in the globe, clothes’ adaptability in urban milieus, among other.

Post-McQueen Embryos seeks to eradicate the non-responsiveness within clothing design by reviewing Alexander McQueen’s alienated proportions, aiming at busting fashion design out of its commercial destination. Intended to become a design research laboratory, AA School Paris ultimate target is to keep growing the potential for meshing both disciplines [Fashion+Architecture] onto a digital/ physical cross-over studio helping to reaffirm AA School Paris research material.

The Paris Experience

Discussions, debates and lectures will take place on site with expertise on a day to day basis. By placing fashion designers at the centre of the process, the workshop seeks to challenge much more than just clothing design. At the core of Spring 2012 our solely goal is of consolidating the AA emerging discipline: bodily-architecture.

Post Mc-Queen Embryos is strengthened by a large network of Parisian Patronage, from industrial, publishing and collaborative links, taking the form of sponsoring inputs to the course.

The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, PHD candidates and young professionals. All applicants should submit a CV and portfolio to Jorge Ayala at info@ayarchitecture.com

Iris van Herpen and Isaie Bloch - micro collection Paris fashion week 2012

2012-02-06T00:53:00.000-08:00

Image Courtesy: Iris van Herpen

Photograph: Victor Boyko

additive manufacturing 3d print physical model excessive II final

2011-11-08T03:04:00.000-08:00

Mbrace

2011-10-07T09:52:00.000-07:00

Do we need some needle and thread ?

2011-10-05T12:14:00.000-07:00

Smudge

2011-09-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

Capriole fashion show in collaboration with Iris Van Herpen

2011-07-20T14:50:00.000-07:00

Excessive studio II final

2011-07-03T07:49:00.000-07:00

Excessive studio II final - intro

2011-07-03T07:44:00.000-07:00

Excessive studio II final - planning

2011-07-03T07:42:00.000-07:00

Excessive studio II final - interior

2011-07-03T07:39:00.001-07:00

Excessive studio II final - exterior

2011-07-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

Next step will be in real 3d

2011-05-17T10:03:00.000-07:00

first attempt entrance hall

2011-05-16T01:11:00.001-07:00

2011-04-21T09:13:00.000-07:00

Structural detailing

2011-04-21T09:11:00.001-07:00

Structural subdivision

2011-04-21T09:10:00.001-07:00

Drawings midterm SCI arch

2011-04-12T05:13:00.000-07:00

Cutlery set

2011-04-12T05:04:00.001-07:00

Cutlery refers to any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food.

Aside of the functional aspect of tableware, silverware has always been and will perpetually be an ornamental figure. Conceived to pleasure the eye while fulfilling one of our most primary needs of food consumption and or squander. Cutlery is unique in its ability to sustain time and carries a remarkable family heritage. Sets of knifes, spoons, forks have been passed on from generation to generation all over the globe, traveling the whole world as a piece of personal history. Key elements while designing this set was the notion of decay/processing, ornamental and aesthetic excess as in former rococo and barock times, moments of collapse/disequilibrium and a balance in between etiquette dining and painful torture tools. By subverting the logic of perfection and beauty, non-perfect images coming from controlled methodologies were generated. What used to be about mastering the result of a non-perfect process is now about the production of monstrosity and the grotesque throughout very accurate mechanisms, like 3d printing. Which creates an unlimited range of possibilities concerning material usage, design approaches/aesthetics and form production.

Function: Cutlery set (4 pieces)
Dimentions: fork - 26 * 187 * 16 mm
spoon - 42 * 188 * 17 mm
thee spoon - 30 * 137 * 13 mm
knife - 29 * 219 * 14 mm
Production material: stainless steel (potentially available in sterling silver)
cost: 400 $ incl VAT

Maybe that's to much of TRON

2011-03-05T08:44:00.000-08:00

In situ

2011-03-05T08:17:00.001-08:00

Concert hall / test /

2011-03-02T06:34:00.000-08:00

Perforation typology 1

2011-03-02T06:27:00.000-08:00

Model

2011-02-18T07:04:00.000-08:00

Lets start

2011-02-17T08:26:00.000-08:00

Program placement

2011-02-15T10:00:00.001-08:00

Partere distribution

2011-02-15T03:21:00.000-08:00

Public sphere of production / Endless possibilities

2011-02-15T03:13:00.001-08:00

Public sphere / Theater - Club

2011-02-15T01:56:00.001-08:00

Bourgeois public sphere / Concert hall

2011-02-15T01:52:00.000-08:00

Primary presentation finals excessive II.1

2011-01-24T03:18:00.000-08:00

Secondary presentation finals excessive II.1

2011-01-24T03:10:00.001-08:00

Fuck stairs, lets go for an elevator

2011-01-07T08:02:00.001-08:00

Botanical garden

2010-12-06T09:56:00.000-08:00

Floating

2010-12-03T08:05:00.001-08:00

Circulation

2010-12-03T02:26:00.001-08:00

midterm review 2nd semester

2010-11-27T07:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.2shared.com/video/un4Lt8Oe/presentatie_midterm_2de_review.html

diagrams

2010-11-27T07:39:00.000-08:00

decay

2010-11-27T07:36:00.001-08:00

programming

2010-11-27T07:33:00.001-08:00

In situ

2010-11-27T07:27:00.000-08:00

Poro

2010-11-17T07:13:00.001-08:00

2010-11-06T08:24:00.001-07:00

Furby

2010-11-06T08:14:00.001-07:00

Doomsday

2010-09-20T08:46:00.000-07:00

3d print in construction

2010-09-14T07:00:00.001-07:00

Up is Down

2010-09-14T05:48:00.000-07:00

Sectional insight

2010-09-14T04:37:00.000-07:00

Interior articulations

2010-09-06T07:47:00.001-07:00

venice bienale review: presentation

2010-08-31T06:18:00.000-07:00

download the presentation here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/415337711/PRESENTATIE_venetie_GOED_klein.mov

Caphole

2010-08-11T09:51:00.001-07:00

Pockets

2010-08-10T09:40:00.000-07:00

Sections

2010-08-09T14:16:00.000-07:00

Physical section

2010-08-04T13:18:00.000-07:00

3d print

2010-08-04T08:31:00.000-07:00

Section typologies

2010-07-29T11:40:00.000-07:00

Landscape II

2010-07-25T15:15:00.000-07:00

Landscape

2010-07-25T13:56:00.000-07:00

Collapse - Inner connectivity

2010-07-23T11:12:00.001-07:00

Collapse

2010-07-23T11:09:00.001-07:00

Structural genotypes

2010-07-20T14:08:00.000-07:00

Decay simulations

2010-07-18T08:15:00.001-07:00

sections

2010-07-15T08:13:00.000-07:00

sections

2010-07-15T07:12:00.001-07:00

sections

2010-07-15T06:12:00.000-07:00

diagrams

2010-07-13T10:21:00.000-07:00

Cell conglomerations - snapshots 2

2010-07-12T12:45:00.001-07:00

Cell conglomerations - snapshots 1

2010-07-12T12:40:00.000-07:00

Cell conglomerations - ortho

2010-07-12T12:20:00.001-07:00

Cell conglomerations - views

2010-07-12T12:13:00.000-07:00

Cell conglomerations - views

2010-07-12T12:03:00.000-07:00

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

2010-07-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

Botanical species - hypershot

2010-07-06T07:17:00.000-07:00

Botanical species - Romantic scene

2010-07-04T03:49:00.001-07:00

Botanical species - Snapshots

2010-07-04T03:39:00.000-07:00

Botanical species 360° - Mutation

2010-07-04T03:20:00.001-07:00

Botanical species 360° - Standing version

2010-07-04T03:19:00.000-07:00

Botanical species 360° - Hanging version

2010-07-04T03:17:00.000-07:00

Mood boards, Botanical species

2010-07-03T13:51:00.000-07:00