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A pavilion to uplift fashion education

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UNI published Story under Conceptual Architecture on Feb 22, 2021

It all started back in Greece when gender was applied to columns and emulated fabric into its fluting; establishing an inter-woven relationship between fashion and architecture. Both disciplines shelter the body, react to spatial volume, play with scales and work on the transfiguration of 2D concepts into 3D reality.

Pierre Balmain, Gianfranco Ferre, Fernando Garcia, Versace, and Coco Chanel share something in common. Before securing the title of fashion moguls of the industry, each of these individuals shared an architectural background. It can be said that architecture and fashion are cut from the same cloth and they sometimes co-depend for inspiration. If fashion is the source of knowledge then architecture is the structure that is responsible for sheltering as well as enhancing its quality.

Fashion education sector is booming and has grown enormously over the last decades. Although, we have witnessed increasing competition in the field of design, yet this isn't the major contributor towards unemployment after graduation. Are our fashion students getting stitched up? How?

There exists a gap between academic and market/ real-world education in current college curriculums. Most of the graduates lack basic stitching and sewing skills that makes job procurement out of question. While the other half falls short of inexperience in terms of presentation, client interaction, and spectator engagement.

Isn't there a solution to create an integrated business-education model? How should fashion schools integrate business learning into a creative education? Can we create a medium to formulate a bond between students and accomplished designers? How can fashion students develop a business mindset from early college age?

Brief: The challenge here is to design a pavilion to integrate academic knowledge with industrial experience amid fashion institutes.

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:

Andrew Whalley, Chairman, Grismhaw, United Kingdom

William Feuerman, Director, Office Feuerman, Australia

Dagur Eggertsson, CEO / Founding Partner, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Norway

Juror

Some of the Best of competition projects are:

Winning Project: Stick n Tuck Pavilion

By: Sesya Diastatin, Ika Kusuamstuti, Ikhsan Latiefah & Afifah Bintang

Description: A pavilion to connect people (students, professionals, and public society) through an interactive, playful, flexible, and sustainable design supported with modular and quick installation materials.

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People’s Choice: Project Runway

By: Kubat Aiupov, Ali Behmaram & Zaza Arbab