Starting to think about how the room should look from inside, I did skteches. The textile should cover three walls and the floor, so the sketches show an unfolded cube with three walls. It is like thinking on paper.
The sketch below show one wall which I like the most so far and can already be transfered practically into textile.
The middle part (with the big knitted structure) was trouble: I didn't like the connection to the walls on the side, and the pattern should be different, cleaner, not as differenciated as the first two pictures below are showing.
And then the idea popped into my mind, that I didn't want to work with the same loudspeaker principle on this wall. In the mid-presentations the question was rised: "And what is tender about your installation? What is the textile giving back in terms of tenderness?"
So the solution for the middle wall to do something different: it will not be loudspeakers answering your tender touch with a sound, but an air stream blowing towards you and stroking you softly and in this way kind of giving you back a tender touch.
The last three pictures show how this can be technically done. An aerator produces the air stream and the air will be blown out through plastic tubes inside of the wool. In the end it looks maybe like a shower: you touch the round capacitive sensor in the knitted structure and air will be blowing down. The aerator also will be doing a nice little noise...
