This design project was inspired by Japanese noren. 

Noren are curtain-like piece of cloth that hang on the entrances of bars, cafes and temples in Japan. I studied the noren through papers, and found the meaning and origin behind it.

In Eastern cultures room layouts are different than in Western cultures.

In Western architecture: room layouts tend to be more closed, while in Eastern cultures rooms and room layouts are more open.

Instead of using closed doors and seperated rooms as in the West, they use open room layouts and transparent doors that can be opened sideways.

These noren work as subtle roomdividers, that make room separation more open.
My initial idea was to make a room, made out of these noren. But the idea was too ambitious. So I only made one wall based on the philosophy, that can prove that point.

The composition of my pieces of cloth were also insipired by Josef Albers his book: 'Interaction of Colour'. Josef Albers is a well known abstract expressionist, who had a different approach towards abstract expressionist paintings.

Instead of using separate colourfields and primarily colours with black outlines, like Gerrit Rietveld, Piet Mondriaan and etc. He chose to use overlapping colourfields and no outlines. These make the compositions more subtle.