Green net shades hammocks and bird feeders in Murmuration by SO-IL
Architecture studio SO-IL has built a green-mesh structure with suspended seating in this installation on the Renzo Piano-designed plaza of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
SO-IL created the structure to temporarily occupy the plaza in front of the extension that Italian architect Renzo Piano added to the High Museum of Art in 2005.
Green agricultural netting is pulled taught over a six green metal poles and stretched across curved metalwork to create a canopy that shades circular hammocks suspended beneath.
The shape of each canopy ? which tapers in at the top and the bottom ? is intended to reference that of trees. Plants are then woven throughout the netting.
"As they cross the Piazza, guests are enveloped by a foliage-filled mesh canopy suspended from a steel framework, evocative of the tree canopies found throughout the region," SO-IL told Dezeen.
The New York studio, which is led by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, came up with the installation as part of its effort to give migratory birds a place for respite in the city. Its shape and name draws on a Murmuration, which is when a huge flock of birds flying together and form different patterns, and is decorated with bird feeders.
"Using the lens of bird migrations, it reacts to Atlanta's relationship with the natural world," said SO-IL.
"Creating a sustainable future for Atlanta includes maintaining or increasing the number of trees," it added. "In its title and concept, ?Murmura...
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