Iga Swiercz Y4
Ministry of Textiles The proposal of the Ministry of Bizzare Textile aims for a more profound understanding of the Scottish ancestry textile industry and promotes a nanotourism strategy for the Highlands. The work rest on a firm belief: a more in-depth application of socio-ecological principles to architecture would change everything; it wouldn't be a partial change; it would mean a revolution for the Highlands. Facing issues like private land ownership and climate change implies not only a basic increment in the ethical responsibility and technical and conceptual complexity of the work but also, a radical shift in the source of regional imagination and aspirations.
Located in the heart of the Cairngorms The Ministry of Bizarre Textile works as a multipurpose textile centre and introduces textile as a temporary, replaceable built material.Aware of the seasonality of Cairngorms, textile becomes the driver reflecting the rhythm of the seasons by adaptable clothed elements creating rituals aligned with the cycles of nature. The soft architecture creates then the possibility for moulding, alternations and reuse of the building. Those specifics require the users of the Ministry to remain at all time within the process and constant maintenance of the fragile textile environments, challenging the group experiences of contemporary spaces.