Mark C. Parsons

Cabana

"Fabric: Form and Performance"

This rooftop cabana is an example of early student research and development of a proposal by Pratt Architecture student Saman Husseini.  Saman's research played an important role in the initial stages of design, when the class focused on the rooftop condition as a program, coupled with ideas about the customizeable sanctuary.  Note that Saman's slack vertical fabric - designed to blow and respond to the wind - is recreated as the stiffened eyebrow conditions that become the customizeable condition of the Light Canopy.