The book's fundamental flaw -- the misleading discrepancy between the scale of actual fabric and wallpaper patterns and that of the rooms -- didn't matter to Simmons.
The mosquito net apparently kept out more than just mosquitoes: a pink crab was scaling the wall of fabric.
Results showed that in the scale of the urban fabric, factors, such as the structures of the buildings, the frame of the neighborhood spaces, and in terms of the architectural details, factors, such as bars, thickness of the walls, and the openings, are among the vernacular features of the area, playing an important role in the stability of Qeshm Island.
The close match of orientations of regional-scale anisotropic fabric and the directions of extension during the last significant episodes of deformation implies that at least a large part of the extension in the Aegean has been taken up by distributed viscous flow in the lower crust and lithospheric mantle.
We present a model of fabric and porosity at 2 different scales: the scale of sand grains and the scale of the clay grains in the intergranular volume.
But not only is the building blitz in direct opposition to the endangered traditional small-scale urban fabric of the city, it also smacks of the kind of propaganda-driven totalitarian urban projects that have been discredited in the west, no thanks to their association with cruelty and oppression.
The challenge, she says, was scaling that process to long yards of fabric.
"We think that we've done the necessary things to not interrupt the historic fabric and scale of lower Broadway.
On display at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, South Korea, the installation (construction site? memorial?) consists of a 1 1 scale silk-fabric replication of the traditional Korean home Suh lived in as a child, erected within another 1 1 scale silk-fabric replication of the apartment building he inhabited when he first moved to Providence, Rhode Island.
Even more theatrical than viable, Etienne Coffinier's guest bedroom plays up the Lilliputian scale of the room with Nobilis fabrics and textures that cover every square inch of the room.
