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FORMS LOST AND FOUND AGAIN

Instructor: Brian Deluna

Plush Memories: Soft Architectures of the Familiar

This thesis explores how craft-based geometries inform architectural material systems through softness and memory. Using techniques such as smocking, pleating, and tufting, textiles are manipulated into repeatable surface patterns and translated into cast materials to retain their tactile logic. Quilting is used as an organizational system and storytelling method, embedding heritage and domestic craft into architectural form. These studies are scaled into a façade system where quilt block logic drives pattern, variation, and assembly. The project tests how soft processes can generate structural surfaces, translating textile behavior into architectural enclosure across multiple scales.

Plush Memories: Soft Architectures of the Familiar