Walldrobe of Fictional Materials

2024 / 25 Speculative Material Research / Textile–Architectural Prototypes

Walldrobe of Fictional Materials is an ongoing project that explores the emotional and symbolic life of materials. Here, architecture is reimagined not as a rigid enclosure but as something soft, shifting, and intimately responsive—more like a garment than a wall.

These speculative textiles and skins resist dominant ideals of material permanence, control, and neutrality. Instead, they offer emotional, reactive, and symbolic responses to the world—materials that feel, shift, and speak back. Each invented material in the collection acts as a counter-proposal to conventional material cultures, which continue to privilege extractive permanence, masculine hardness, and imperial durability. In contrast, this project centers softness, decay, and emotional responsiveness—inviting change not as something to resist, but something to design with.

Technic, in this context, is not just about structure—it becomes a system of care. Whether through manual weaving, digital scripting, or algorithmic dyeing, these materials emerge through what I call technics of intimacy: slow, situated, and interconnected practices that require attention, not just labor; that hold memory, not just mass. Through this ongoing material laboratory, Walldrobe aims to shift how we teach, imagine, and legislate material form—pushing toward futures where buildings wear trauma like bruises, where skins respond with softness, and where architecture can finally be as alive, and as vulnerable, as the bodies it holds.