Project by Latifa Alfalah, Nicole Kertznus
Fabric waste is a condition of accumulation, garments discarded, circulated, and detached from use. This project begins within that afterlife, asking how textile waste can be reabsorbed into architecture as a system. The building operates as a layered, responsive structure that incorporates discarded fabrics into its envelope. Rather than a static facade, it dresses and redresses itself in relation to climate, program, and time. Seasonal layers of soft curtains and more rigid textile panels shift, filter, and insulate, creating a facade that is continuously adjusted rather than fixed. Inside, programs are organized by degrees of exposure, from public gathering spaces to controlled zones of sorting, processing, and fabrication. Through these cycles, textile waste is reused and continuously transformed, making the building both a site of production and a living archive of material in flux.
