GOUSCHE KIM

As his thesis collection for his graduating year, pulsation | segmentation delved into Gousche's background as a software engineer, pivoting upon an algorithmic structure known as quadtrees, which breaks up a 2D plane into recursively smaller squares, and its implications on silhouette and pattern cutting. Both manually and computer-generated quadtrees on paper set the guidelines upon which a rule set was imparted, restricting the draping process to cutting, folding, and aligning against these lines on the 2D and 3D figure. These paper drapes created elements that pieced together to form garments. To maintain the shapes created in paper, different pieces utilized various techniques to maintain shape, such as fabric bonding, nylon filament embroidery, silicone elastomers. Eventually, the forms that were taking shape were dependent on shadow and fluctuation of proximity to the body; these ideas were the guiding tenets that dictated the formation of the final collection.