jenny sabin : my thread pavillion
Sabin's myThread Pavilion, an installation housed at the Nike Bowery Stadium, starts with a series of questions: "How do you knit and braid a building? Could a building be as lightweight as air? How can sport influence both design and fabrication and inspire the next generation of buildings? What if we could form-fit and enhance architecture with bio-architecture and performance of our own bodies?" Sabin took on the task by first collecting Nike+ FuelBand data from a community of runners during an earlier Flyknit workshop. The patterns from this data were then transformed into a 3D modeled environment, resulting in Sabin's unique installation piece. “I’m very interested in probing the human body as a bio-dynamic model that can give us new ways of thinking about issues of performance and adaptation at an architectural scale,” said Sabin in a press release. “Performance, lightness, formfitting, sustainability become immediately relevant in terms of what we are doing.
