Aleksandra Gaca’s Architextiles is a series of innovative sound absorbing textiles. By using newly developed weave structures (bindings) the fabric has a threedimensional structure in which order, rhythm and repetition are key.
Architextiles Art Panels in the acoustic fabric Rhombus feature geometric structures in new colour combinations to provide a visual, tactile and auditory experience.
After her graduation in 1997, Gaca started experimenting with threedimensional fabrics. She uses both traditional and new techniques and is always refining her designs. Gaca starts from the technique and adjusts her design or pattern to the technique. Most of her fabrics contain different layers that through the use of different yarns become threedimensional.
Born in Poland, textile designer Gaca (Lods, 1969) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag). Her designs unite strong aesthetic qualities with high functional performance in acoustics and insulation. Her textile designs are, amongst others, applied at Museum de Lakenhal and the Dutch Embassy in Berlin. She worked together with fashion designer Iris van Herpen and was responsible for the upholstery of the Renault Symbioz Concept Car. In 2018 she won the Dutch Design Award for Best Product and the Golden A' Design Award in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category. Gaca lives and works in Delft, the Netherlands.
