New York City
1984

Located two hundred feet above grade, this rustic shading structure cools the urban environment. In the tradition of follies of the Enlightenment (’Adam’s House in Paradise’), this loose echo of primitive shelter starts with felled tree trunks, evolves into heavy timber supports and then a smaller scale grid of trellis work. The central pyramid is covered in bright canvas and topped with a sky-reflecting metallic cap.

When viewed properly, the distant horizon intersects the trunk tops, bisecting the world into the natural Rouseauian and the abstracted Cartesian above.