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Berezova M.A. Model-making and digital tectonics: a methodology of hybrid costume design. Journal of Clothing Science. 2025; 10(4). Available at: https://kostumologiya.ru/PDF/25IVKL425.pdf (in Russian).

Model-making and digital tectonics: a methodology of hybrid costume design

Berezova Marina Andreevna
Volga Region State University of Service, Tolyatti, Russia
Higher School of Design and Arts
E-mail: Berezova-m@list.ru
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=837365

Abstract. The article examines a methodological approach to hybrid costume design in which analog and digital technologies function as complementary elements of a unified design process. The relevance of this study stems from a shift in the design paradigm: digital tools are no longer solely a technological supplement and are becoming a means of artistic and constructive thinking. Under these conditions, physical model-making retains its significance as a means of forming a spatial and tectonic concept, ensuring the connection between idea, form, and material. The purpose of the study is to substantiate a methodology of hybrid costume design based on the interaction between model-making and digital technologies, as well as to identify the role of the model-based method and the principles of digital tectonics as forms of design thinking. Methodologically, the research relies on comparative-typological and structural-analytical approaches that integrate the analysis of analog and digital methods of form generation. It is established that hybrid design produces a new typology of interaction between manual and algorithmic form-making. Analog model-making provides an initial sensory and spatial understanding of form, while digital tools refine its constructive and tectonic logic. The study demonstrates that the principles of digital tectonics — structurality, code-based logic, visual-spatial interactivity, and new materiality — ensure continuity between craft-based and computational stages of design. The scientific novelty of the research lies in substantiating a hybrid methodology of costume design based on the integration of physical model-making and digital technologies, as well as in reinterpreting model-making as an element of design thinking that ensures continuity between analog and digital stages. The concept of digital tectonics is introduced and defined as a form of structural and constructive thinking emerging at the intersection of material practice and algorithmic design tools. The practical significance of the results lies in their applicability to educational programs in costume design, where the model is regarded not as an auxiliary tool but as a foundation for the development of tectonic thinking.

Keywords: post-digital era; hybrid design methodology; model-making; digital modeling; digital tectonics; costume design methodology; fashion design

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