A Dress Code - Address Code; Clothing Design : Second Skin as the Solution for / Instead of Third Skins (Humane Architecture - recorded on 3/23/2026). The host for this show was Martin Despang. The guest was Bilge Kobas.
The discussion was: This show is introducing Bilge Kobas Research Associate at the Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Technical University of Munich.
Bilge is an architect (Istanbul Technical University, ITU, 2008) with a master’s degree in Sustainable Environmental Design (ITU, 2011 & AA, 2013). Her PhD is about developing and testing the methodologies behind her TUM SenseLab. Her relentless ultimate goal is to understand how physiological data can play a role in understanding the impact of thermal environments on the human body. One of her research areas is testing different methods on measuring a variety of physiological data, different experimental design criterion, understanding what to measure, how and when, to start with. She is especially interested in the impact of time on thermal physiology and how it can be key to identify adaptive strategies for the human body together with the built environment.
This show is a kick off of hopefully many more motivating , inspiring , provoking you the audience to before thinking of the ‘third skin’ of building envelopes / fenestrations / facades at all to first focus on the optimization of the ‘second skin’ as the more immediate and intimately related to the human body enclosure of its born with ‘first skin’. The show starts out with visuals which DeSoto Brown and Martin Despang had gathered over the years regarding this subject but so far always been shying away from airing it as they felt this topic might be the most relevant of all their focuses / findings. But all it took was Bilge’s way more serious scientific research interest to now bring it on the table / screen.
The takeaway was: The built environment: architecture has gotten largely overdressed and become a burden to bioclimate and budget. While one way , like the SHIFT way is to ‘build simple’ as with intelligently dummed downed third skins : facades this Bilge’s approach goes further in a wide open potential spectrum of substituting ‘third skins : facades’ with ‘second skins : clothing’ to designing ‘thirds skins’ like ‘second skins’
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