NURTURING PLAY
While re-imagining the feeling and playful nature of our childhood forts, our team was inspired by the Live Oak motts found in the Central Texas landscape.
We responded to this form by arranging cylinders of varying heights and widths along the trail within Austin’s Wildflower Center. Composed of various gauges of cattle wire and mesh, the cylinders feature openings to allow visitors to occupy their interiors, while seeing and hearing each other through multiple layers of transparency.
The primary material, a utilitarian wire mesh commonly used to protect saplings from local wildlife, is coated with color derived from the wildflowers that bloom in the area throughout the Spring. The saplings and the visitors are one in the same, both taking shelter within the wire enclosures.
Additional Designers: Chris Sanders, Isabelle Bogran & Emma Foster
