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an empty room with white curtains and tables on the floor, in front of a wall

Most people have at one time or another spent the night in a tent and have benefited from the protection provided by its fabric, while at the same time enjoying the sensation of being separated from nature by nothing more than a thin shell. Textile forms of habitation have a long history going back to palaeolithic times and represent an archetypal form of building which has endured to the present day. Textiles are light, easy to convert or dismantle, and they provide protection against wind…

a white umbrella sitting on top of a wooden table next to a wall with shelves

Cornell architecture undergrads Jimmy Chen and Jennifer Wang made this scale model of the Cutty Sark Pavilion for their structures assignment. We’re impressed that they so faithfully reverse engineered the building through their own parametric model. Nice work!

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