The Horizontal City Vs The Matrix |

I was recently chatting with a friend who is studying fashion design and we were discussing the possibilities of using urban planning schemes and scale models as inspirations for fashion. So I'm going to share with you an image that I used as an example for her.

This comparison shows on one side the “Città orizzontale” or “Horizontal City”, a plan published in 1940 on Costruzioni Casabella and designed by Irenio Diotallevi, Franco Marescotti and Giuseppe Pagano, and on the other Nanni Strada's "Matrix" (1995) fabric.

The plan for the horizontal city included a series of council houses – or units – surrounded by other infrastructures and was an attempt at experimenting with the continuity of the urban fabric.

Strada's Matrix, mainly employed for scarves, was characterised by a pleated motif that created on the fabric surface three-dimensional effects and was conceived as a way to experiment with the continuity of geometrical effects. The comparison works rather well in this case also because the architects conceived the housing project as "horizontal" and prints, surface effects and other elaborations are created horizontally, putting the fabric on a table and then working on it.

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