Gwangju Gazebo  at Gwangju Design Biennale 2017    

The point of departure for the Gwangju Gazebo is Gottfried Semper's Bekleidungstheorie (principle of clothing), which defines the relationship of a building's core to its envelope or enclosure. According to Semper, it is these envelopes, with their origins in weaving and fabric screens, that constitute architectural space. The building's core and structural system are simply derivatives of the envelope.

The first computational approach to clothing is arguably the Jacquard loom, which used punch cards laced in a sequence to produce complex patterns in textiles. The Gwangju Gazebo mirrors this approach, and explores how Bekleidung (clothing) could be formed using today's computational tools - specifically by using selective subdivision processes.