Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect.

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	CHLOE JENNY BENNIE
	

A designer&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;captivated by&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Light,&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Material,&#38;nbsp; and Texture.&#38;nbsp;</description>
		
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I’m Chloe Jenny Bennie. I am a current adjunct professor of architecture at RISD, designer, texture enthusiast, and recent M.Arch graduate. 

Originally from Scotland, I am now a British/American Dual Citizen and reside in Providence, Rhode Island, by way of Singapore, California, and Hawaii.

I am interested in design that thinks about the sensory connections with materiality and how that can create a sense of place, object construction, and the politics of gender and class structures within architecture.&#38;nbsp;


EducationRhode Island School of Design.
M.Arch, 2021
Harvard Business School Online.
Core 1 certified, 2020University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
BEnvD, 2018Danish Institute of Study Abroad.Urban Design Studio, 2017


Experience

Adjunct Professor&#38;nbsp;


RISD Architecture&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Autumn 2021
Managing EditorRISD Architecture 2020 Thesis Book&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Summer 2020
Teaching AssistantRISD; Race and Modern Architecture, Modern Architecture,
Architecture Projection
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Autumn 2019- Winter 2020
Office Assistant&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;RISD Architecture&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Summer 2019- Spring 2021
Workshop Teaching Assistant&#38;nbsp;UH Manoa Architecture&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Autumn 2016- Spring 2018
Architecture Intern&#38;nbsp;Kelly and Stone Archiects&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Summer 2016


	Awards
RISD Fellowship&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 2018-2021
AIA Honolulu Scholarship&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2017
Hawai’i Wood Show; 1st Place&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2018
Tongji University International
 Construction Festival; 3rd Place&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;2016


Skills
Adobe Suite;

 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Photoshop, Illustrator, 
InDesign, Premiere Pro
CAD Softwares;
&#38;nbsp; Rhino, AutoCAD, 
&#38;nbsp; ArchiCad, SketchUp
Metashape
Rendering Software;&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Lumion, Twin Motion
Freehand Sketching
Woodshop Operations; &#38;nbsp; CNC Router, Laser Cutter,
 &#38;nbsp; MIG Welding, Joinery
Textile; &#38;nbsp; Sewing, Floor Loom, Hand Loom, 
&#38;nbsp; Pattern Construction, Digital Embroidery


	Contactbenniechloe@gmail.com&#38;nbsp;
	
	
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		<title>18 Van Buren Street</title>
				
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		<description>18 Van Buren St.Low Income Modular HousingRISD M.Arch Design&#38;nbsp;
Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Autumn 2020Location:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Providence, RI.
Advised By:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Johnathon Knowles, Brett Schneider.Materials:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Benson Wood prefab panels, 
Vuscreen Livorno (outdoor fabric), Typ.


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This project is in partnership with the City of Providence to create low cost modular homes for low-income families within Lower South Providence.


Neighbourhood
18 Van Buren Street is 1/30 plots of land currently owned by the City of Providence that can be gifted to local non-profits to make low-income housing. This particular plot of land is situated in Lower South Providence. This area is considered “the rough side of town”, with that being said, the area is starting to go through rejuvenation and gentrification. Many people have been moving to Providence in recent years from Boston due to increasing housing prices.
This area is populated by the traditional pre-1930s New England style triple-decker. A three-story all-wood home with a large balcony on the front of each building. The triple-decker usually lacks a front garden and often does not have a back garden either. Many triple-deckers have been renovated into multi-family homes.


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Concept
For this single-family home, there were several goals I wanted to achieve within the design. First, make sure that the house can be innovative but still fit in well with the neighbourhood. How do I create a triple-decker like house without wasting square footage? Secondly, how can I make this home easy to recreate and configure on various unique sites? Lastly, it’s impossible to reinvent the wheel, but can I do anything that might make the wheel cheaper to produce, more efficient, or reduce upkeep costs? I decided to use prefab wood to put the home together quickly, like a jigsaw, instead of typical 2x construction. Keeping the structure of the building within the prefab panels only made sense so I could then maximise the floor plan as much as possible. Then thinking about how I can cause “plug-in” type protrusions from the structural envelope for circulation and small jut-outs for built-ins, like the couch. 


Interior Details
To maximise square footage while keeping the building compact, 18 Van Buren mimics the triple-deckers around it by maintaining a small footprint and using the square footage to contribute to the height rather than the width of the home. In addition, the staircase is expressed outside the building and cantilevered off from the structural Benson Wood prefab panels. This is to maximise useable floor space in the home.
To keep light within the home, aside from person-scale cosy windows in each “plug-in”, each floor has a light shelf to keep the entire area as naturally lit as possible as well as utilising a large skylight above. In addition, the fabric is stretched from the skylight above to each “mezzanine” single bedroom floor to create privacy and light diffusion.


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Construction Pt1.
While most of the structure for the building is located in the prefab walls, five columns exist within the living space. These columns serve two functions. The first is to provide additional support for the bedroom floors. The other is to provide places of connection for the ground floor “moveable walls”. The moveable walls are another instalment of the use of fabric within the home (whatever the family would like; they get to choose their wallpaper). The fabric spans from individual columns to create dividers in the open plan ground floor. This lets the ground floor become adaptable and can be used as an entirely wheelchair accessible apartment.
There are three steps in the imagined basic exterior construction of 18 Van Buren St. The first being assembling 16 prefab Benson Wood panels. The second step would be to add the “plugins”: the built-in living room, bedroom, and bathroom protrusions and staircase. The last step would be to cover the building with Swela’s Vuscreen Livorno fabric.


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Construction Pt2.
Swela’s Vuscreen Livorno fabric is exciting. This fabric has two uses on the exterior of the home.
The upper of the fabric covers the area above the staircase to the roof. It is connected from the roof, pushed out by the light shelves and then connected to the top of the staircase. The idea is that there is no need for a gutter at the top of the home. Instead, the water flows down the fabric into a recessed channel hidden on the top of the staircase. This upper fabric is also another layer of light protection while diffusing light. 
The lower fabric is clipped in and hangs from underneath the staircase. This clip-in system lets the fabric be readily removed whenever a storm is approaching, the owner wants to change/replace the fabric, or if the traditional wood siding of the home wants to be exposed. &#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Cranston St. Armory Market</title>
				
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	Cranston St. Armory Market
	A Market and Community Hub
RISD M.Arch Design&#38;nbsp;

Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Spring 2020.
Location:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Providence, RI.
Advised By: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Yasmin Vobis.
Materials: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Steel, CMYK Paint, CMYK 
Industrial
 woven wire mesh, Concrete.

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This project works as a market and community gathering space with the Cranston St. Armory district with the historic Cranston St. Armory as the backdrop. 


History
The Cranston St Armory was used from 1907 until the mid-1990s by the National Guard. Since the mid-1990s, the Armory has remained primarily silent, falling into the need of repair. It is recognised as one of “Americas most endangered Historic places” and is an icon throughout the neighbourhood.
Just south of the Armory lies Dexter training field. Surrounded by victorian style brightly painted homes, Dexter Field was used as an encampment and training ground during the Civil War and training grounds for those about to depart to World War 1.
This area is engulfed with war era history helped by the Armory towering over the neighbourhood. But, unfortunately, the large majority of the residents in this neighbourhood now are low-income immigrants who either don’t care about the history of the space or simply don’t like the reminder of American militarisation looming over their homes.


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Colour and Layers
This Market and Community Center plays with colour and light to preserve the memory of the Armory but blur the details when looked upon from Dexter field. This is done by working with layers of CMYK painted industrial woven mesh to produced the same orangish colour as the Armory when layered and looked at from Dester field. From the side where the Market is next to the Armory, the layering of mesh presents the Market as the second Iconic colour of the Armory, a light copper blue.


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Program
The market is set up to have a ground floor level of flexible, open concept pods. Vendors can sell out of the openings in the mesh. In addition, two sizeable open area performance spaces work as a space to eat, gather, or overflow market stalls. One of the spaces is fully enclosed in the centre of the market. The other is semi-enclosed, opening up to the park and street.
On the first floor, private administration offices lie, encased in the thick roof created by layered mesh.
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Structure
There are two vertical structural components of this market space and community centre; steel columns and concrete cores.
Two of the four concrete cores span up from the basement to the first level providing egress (both stair, elevator and freight elevator), while all four concrete cores also house restrooms.
There are two types of steel columns. Every kind of column helps to delineate the use. The Mesian-styled symmetrical crossed steel column shapes the tensile mesh (painted cyan and magenta). The traditional square steel column (painted yellow) holds up the first floor and does not interact with the tensile mesh. 


Mesh Wrapping


The mesh has two connections and is only ever connected to the columns in tension (the only exception being the curved parabolic mesh within the roof which is non-tensile and connected to tensile mesh).&#38;nbsp; To keep the tension, the mesh is wrapped around each column it passes, and when it is time for that panel to terminate, it completes a final wrap where it is then bolted securely to the column. This means that if there were ever the need to dismantle this market, the planes could be removed with ease. 


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&#38;nbsp; Colour can be intimidating, but to ignore colour in this context would be ignoring the city.&#38;nbsp;
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		<title>The John Lewis School</title>
				
		<link>https://chloejennybennie.com/The-John-Lewis-School</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect. </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://chloejennybennie.com/The-John-Lewis-School</guid>

		<description>The John Lewis SchoolK-12 Public School in a Low Income Neighbourhood
 RISD M.Arch Design&#38;nbsp;


Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Spring 2020.Location: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Providence, RI.
Advised By: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Emmanuel Admassu.Materials:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Rammed Earth, Typ.


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This project looks at how design has the opportunity to be centred around inclusion and exclusion and the way it can contribute to revitalisation and growth for a community. 


Neighbourhood
The John Lewis School is on the border of two school districts. The school serves as a K-12 and community engagement centre for the Douglas cluster, where opportunities for families are lower.
The Atlanta Green Belt is an area that is synonymous with gentrification. Mozley Park and Hunter Hills, the two neighbourhoods occupied by The John Lewis School, have seen the community start to shrink and support for those in need dwindle. Not only has the immediate community and support began to decline, but the relationships with the surrounding communities also have. Within Atlanta, everyone knows that the green belt separates social classes. There is even an acronym, ITP or OTP (Inside the Perimeter or Outside the Perimeter).
Atlanta has a schooling problem. In the US, schools are funded by the local district property taxes; the less money the district has, the less funding. As a result, charter schools have begun to populate Atlanta. While these schools offer a better education for those communities, they’re also highly competitive to get into, run on an independent system, and provide little help to the community. Within the Douglas cluster, students who don’t get the opportunity to go to a charter school must go to their local public school, where the quality of education is compromised due to insufficient funding. In addition, because of a decline of families attending their local schools, these local schools no longer work as a hub for the community. 


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Concept
To address this exclusion and inequity within the school district caused by the border and Green Belt, it seemed only fitting that the school embrace, recontextualise, and take over the cause of the problem and use it to its advantage. It started to create a great moment where there was an opportunity to commandeer the neighbourhood’s gentrification and turn it into a revitalisation. Each school building deals with the idea of the Green Belt and community/communities differently depending on what level of education the students are in. 
One major critical design decision had to be made within the school’s design to address transportation to and from school. Along with gentrification, the green belt also brings public transit. Situating the schools along the green belt makes the commute from school to school easier (you walk on one raised path to drop the kids off one by one). There are major bus stops next to the middle and elementary school that serves most of the Douglass cluster. This transportation also makes it easy for families to use the school as a resource for themselves, not just the children. 


The Schools
The elementary school building transports students over the Green Belt while the public walk under the school. The school has an equal footprint on either side of the green belt and is the only school building to be one singular building. While the school does straddle the Green Belt, the students are learning about their community in elementary school, so there is little communication with the neighbouring cluster. Each school has a corresponding community program; they have a physical health centre for the elementary school. 
The middle school building transports students underneath the Green Belt and has the first occurrence of an “anti-follie”. The primary use of the “anti-follie” is as a fragmented classroom of the school sitting within the Washington cluster. This fragmented classroom also acts as a community and shared gathering space with the local Washington High School. In the hopes of beginning to foster a relationship with the neighbouring community. The Middle School has an emotional and mental health centre.
The high school fully envelops the Green Belt. The “anti-follies” start to make up a large portion of the classroom spaces during the day, and on the evening and weekends, gathering spaces for the community. The high school heavily relies on shared resources with Washington High School, like their football field. However, the John Lewis School also contributes resources to Washington High School, like tennis courts and creates a safer way to travel to school for those Washington cluster students utilising the greenbelt and protected walk space from one high school to another. In addition, the John Lewis High school houses the financial literacy centre to better set up those new to the community and helping those in need within the community. 


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Architecture is inherently political, and to think that one design solves all problems is flawed. It can, however, start to attempt
to create equity in our built environment while we try to topple those systems that cause inequality in the first place. 


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		<title>M.Arch Thesis</title>
				
		<link>https://chloejennybennie.com/M-Arch-Thesis</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:13:27 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect. </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://chloejennybennie.com/M-Arch-Thesis</guid>

		<description>Whores Sluts and Bitches; The percieved limits of Sexualisation and affects on space.M.Arch Thesis Project&#38;nbsp;


Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Autumn 2020- Spring 2021.Location:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Providence, RI.Advised By:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Amy Kulper, Jaqueline Shaw.
Full thesis: www.spacesofsexualisation.com


	www.spacesofsexualisation.com


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		<title>Photogrammetry </title>
				
		<link>https://chloejennybennie.com/Photogrammetry</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect. </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://chloejennybennie.com/Photogrammetry</guid>

		<description>&#38;nbsp; PhotogrammetryMapping of spaces with iPhone RISD M.Arch Design

Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Spring 2020. 
Location: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Bapst Library, BC Campus, MA. Materials:&#38;nbsp; Metashape Pro, Rhino, Photoshop.


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Mapping and exploration of vaults, colour, and texture. 


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The goal
I wanted to explore how I could think about buildings and the transition of spaces only by looking at light, the saturation of colour, and the role of the “architectural drawing” being entirely made based on elements that are not traditionally represented for a basic understanding of the building.


	Bapst Library
I chose to do the study at Bapst Library on the Boston College campus. The procession into this library is unique. The stone used for the library appears across the campus, unifying the buildings. This light stone is the only material in the building, from the front door, through the processional staircases, and into the gallery until one enters the main hall. The main hall has additional materials mimicking outside (the long green carpet and dark timber framing). The library also allowed me to think about organic tonal interactions between materials, i.e. connection and treatment of stone, wood, stained glass, and textile.

	
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Discoveries
Using photogrammetry can not only map space, but when used as a design tool, it starts to blur hierarchies and directional qualities of the building. A flattening begins to happen that, while only the interior space is mapped, reads as directionless. The interior is shown and represented as both inside and outside at once. 


Discoveries Cont.
Controlling the density of the point cloud changed how I perceived the space depending on the amount of information shown. Depth of space and the visual language of diagramming these spaces can have different impacts depending on the background colour. Throughout this exploration, one thing became apparent. The undertone of the material gave a more impactful visual effect than the “actual” colour. The undertone mixed with different degrees of density changed how I perceived texture and solid void mass. For example, the stained glass windows became flattened with the colour of the sky outside. They turned this ornamental, decorative, and translucent material into something with the same importance as the stone from which the Bapst Library was built. 


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Experimenting with photogrammetry has allowed me to think about how light, colour, and density relate to material.&#38;nbsp;

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		<title>283 Waybosset Street *page currently under construction*</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:25:53 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect. </dc:creator>

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		<description>283 Waybosset StreetCommunity center in Downtown Providence&#38;nbsp;RISD M.Arch Design


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		<title>Weaving </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2021 19:04:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chloe Jenny Bennie. Architect. </dc:creator>

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		<description>WeavingExperiments in material, warp, and weft.&#38;nbsp; Funafuti Weaving, and Hawai’i Wood Show Weaving

Levels of Funafuti

Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Autumn 2017. Location: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; Honolulu,HI. Materials: &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Recycled book pages, Jute, Spalted Mango Wood.

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	&#38;nbsp;Levels of Funafuti directly talks about the impending impact of climate change, particularly sea level rise, on the community on the Tuvaluvian Island Funafuti.&#38;nbsp;


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The background
Funafuti, an atoll in Tuvalu with a population of about 6,000 people, is in danger. Environmentally it is in trouble. Funafuti is on track to be the first inhabited island to be entirely submerged by sea-level rise. The atoll holds about 60% of Tuvalu’s population. Culturally Funafuti is also in danger. The lack of higher education and limits on income level on the island is causing many of the younger people to leave and only return for visits and bring money home to family. 
The breath of life in Tuvalu is the water. Life exists in fishing boats, and people rely on the one thing that will soon take their homes from them; the ocean. 


The concept
Funafuti is reliant on the lagoon and ocean connecting the islands. Much of the artwork bringing awareness to Funafuti solely focuses on the destruction that global warming is doing to the island and not on the people and relationships they harbour. This artwork was made while living in the Pacific. While I&#38;nbsp; cannot relate to Tuvaluvian culture personally, I was encompassed by Polynesian culture and southern pacific friends. 
To talk about the doubling relationship that Tuvaluan people have with the ocean, the weave is double-sided. One side calm and organised, the other slightly more unruly. The fishing line adds to the unruliness while also acknowledging the need of the lagoon in providing food.
The entire weave is made up of recycled and old books. Each page was ripped into strips following the grain to be woven in with fishing line and the jute warp. The different shades, weight, and markings of the paper create gentle swells of interlocking cultures to bring together the same goal eventually. 


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The Body Experience
To connect our bodies with the bodies and culture in discussion, making the textile non-precious and not just visually sensorial was essential. To fully understand the multi-nature of the relationship to the sea, we have to observe the piece from both sides and many angles. From the top-down, we can see the calm. We can see the mixing of cultures. From below, when laying on the ground underneath, the tendrils of the fishing line start tickling us; we can hear and feel the rustling together of the restless paper. Finally, when we look at the piece from the side, we see the authentic relationships between both sides. To lie underneath means to experience immersion “under the water” and only seeing some light peeping through. 


Gallery Showing
Levels of Funafuti was part of a two-month-long exhibition in the University of Hawai’i Commons Gallery that looked at the impact of climate change through alternative material textiles. 


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Hawai’i Wood Show Prize Winner

Date:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Spring, 2018. Location:&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Honolulu,HI. Materials: Jute, Native Hawai’ian Woods 
(Opiuma, Norfolk Pine, Sugi, 
Koa, Camphor, Spalted Mango)


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Winner of the 2018 Hawai’i Wood Show i+i Challenge


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The Challenge
For the Hawaii Wood Show 2018, I competed in the i+i Design Challenge. They provided several planks of off-cut Hawai’ian wood with the prompt to create an object(s) that interacted with light. We could only use the off-cut wood provided.


The Concept
The approach to this piece was based entirely on the shapes of the off-cut wood provided.&#38;nbsp; I took the opportunity to push the limits of what I could do with weaving and how to weave. 
I decided to butterfly the off-cut opiuma and connect it with spalted mango butterfly joints to make a frame. The existing termite holes were the perfect spots to thread my jute warp through. Once the frame was made and warp wrapped, I decided to play with light and transparency by making veneers from the rest of the wood (mango, sugi, Norfolk pine, koa, camphor) by a method of quick boiling. That way, the wood became desaturated, and there was ease to bend and dry over time. From then, it was as simple as gently threading through each individual bent veneer.&#38;nbsp;


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