The Sleep Suit attempts to challenge the idea of personal space in relationship to the human body and its surrounding environment. The project is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s practice of Dymaxion sleeping, which involves taking four thirty-minute naps over a period of 24 hours, and explores the material requirements for such conditions. Architecturally, the very close relationship between the human body and the suit acts as the generator of form as well as a tool to negotiate bet...
Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk, or byssus, which comes from a clam.