Exterior View
CAST is Centre for Advanced and Sustainable Textiles - final project of my BArch degree at the Glasgow School of Art.
CAST is dedicated to design, research and development of sustainable textiles and materials with a particular focus on the use of advanced technologies. Aiming to create, inspire, educate and innovate, CAST is a creative laboratory, where learning from each other, collaborating and exchanging ideas is the main working principle.The Centre includes specialist textile workshops and designer studios, a gallery, an event venue and a cafe. All spaces are designed to be visually and spatially connected to each other and to the surrounding nature to create free flow of movement and open views in and around the building, celebrating the process of creation and textile production and paying tribute to the beauty of surrounding nature.
Outside or Inside? View from the orangery towards Dyeing and Screen Printing workshops.
Concept Sketch
The main concept idea of the design is treating space as a framework for creativity.
A space where creativity can flourish should inspire. At the same time it should be reserved enough to avoid overwhelming emotions that are too strong and can be distractive for the creative mind. CAST is, therefore, a composition of simple orthogonal forms and reduced material palette of concrete and glass, which creates the composed atmosphere necessary to allow the creative process to unfold unrestrained against a neutral background. Flow of people, ideas, nature, views, air, sounds and scents is the magic that happens in-between the space - this happens in the orangery, which connects the separate units.
Site Location: Pollok Park, Glasgow, UK
Diagrams explain the main design strategies
Exploration of the process behind Textile Design and Production
Textile Production at CAST
The designers at CAST are a collective of young professionals who share a particular interest in the development of sustainable textiles using advanced technologies to modify natural matter. The team consists of 20 people, specialising in a variety of fields: dyeing, screen printing and weaving as well as Material Futures - advanced research at the intersection of textile design, chemistry, biology and physics to develop new innovative materials with exceptional characteristics. Workshops are designed to accomodate a particular type of textile production, focusing on individual specific requirements for each activity.
Section A 1.125
Section B 1.125
1.100 Model. Media: greyboard, acetate, wire, gauze, acrylic paint.
Diagrams explain the environmental strategies of the project
