Modern architects and designers atdesigning public and residential interiors are constantly involved in the field of textile design, creating unique objects, products and items that have a textile component, and often in significant volume. The design of textile objects for finishing and filling interiors alone does not have the large-scale power of architecture. However, together with it, it forms an architectural and design environment that can influence a person due to the direct connection between him and architecture in terms of comfort and nuances of emotional impact. For example, in textile architecture, the variety of options for including soft materials in fences is especially great and varies in extreme limits - from a platform slightly covered by a canopy to rooms completely enclosed by multi-layer walls.
Book by Anna Alexandrovna Gavrilina— architect, designer and teacher — is distinguished by a comprehensive consideration of all forms of textiles in architecture and design of external and internal spaces. Textiles are used for enclosing structures and interior filling of capital buildings, quickly erected mobile structures, temporarily used pavilions, tents and light shelters. Soft materials are widely used in production, in agriculture, in advertising, in festive decoration and so on. Chapter 13 examines the basic principles of interior design using textile components. These include:
- tectonic potential of textiles in the imaginative solution of the architectural environment;
- features of the perception of textiles in the elements of the environment;
- social reference points in textile design elements of the architectural environment.
The textile component brings its own specificity tothese relationships due to the fact that traditional structures and building materials that form rigid forms differ in many ways from textiles - soft and flexible. The conditions for creating an integrated system are considered. Including:
- the condition for creating a coherent system of "unity of different";
- the condition of conformity of "quantity of textiles" to the specifics of compositional constructions;
- the condition of predetermination of the mobility of "ARCHtex" in a single structure.
Textiles in the structure of architectural environment elements are considered separately:
- composite connection of elements in the structure of the interior;
- textiles in the structure of fences, means of spatial designation, fixation, communication and division;
- Textiles in the composition of elements of filling the environment;
- textile design in the composite connections of objects of decoration.
In addition to the search for aesthetic expressivenesselements of the environment in the structure of the methodology and meaning of design, it is proposed to include an updated perception of space with a special attitude to the textile component and an understanding of its role and possibilities in the formation of the living environment. The book covers the topic of textiles widely - from the influence of the environment and landscape on the use of textiles in the architectural environment to the implementation of textile decoration projects. The content of the book provides the basis for an individual approach in the search for not only a volumetric-spatial solution, but also the creation of a predictable, emotionally perceived architectural environment. And the methodological principles set out in the book have been tested for ten years in the process of teaching at the Higher School of Environmental Design of the Moscow Architectural Institute. The textbook can be purchased at the "Architect's Shop" (13 Kuznetsky Most St., entrance from Rozhdestvenka St.).
