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Windshape was an ephemeral structure commissioned in 2006 by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) as a gathering space for students and as a venue to host events in their Provence campus in Lacoste, France. Windshape became the main public meeting space in the small town, and hosted concerts, exhibitions, and ceremonial gatherings throughout the summer of 2006. The project was designed by nARCHITECTS, and built by our office + a team of SCAD students over a period of five weeks. Windshape was conceived as an inhabitable outdoor environment, consisting of two eight metre high pavilions that dynamically changed with the Provençale wind. A structural vine-like network of white plastic pipes, joined together and stretched apart by aluminum collars, emerged from the limestone walls and terraces of Lacoste’s hillside. Fifty kilometers of white polypropylene string, threaded through the structural lattice, were woven to create swaying enclosures. The string was woven into dense reg
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