Project by To Quynh Pham
This architectural intervention confronts the growing challenge of bird-window collisions along major urban flyways, utilizing the 165-foot-tall cable net facade at 10 Columbus Circle as its site. We envision a responsive curtain wall that replaces static glass with dynamic, adjustable layers of fabric.
Inspired by theater rigging, the design proposes a modular, pixelated system of tracks and anchors that offer flexibility in deployment and materiality. This allows the facade to modulate its transparency and reflectivity, increasing coverage during peak Spring and Fall migration to safeguard nocturnal migrants. Beyond ecology, this system transforms the building’s skin into an expressive, changing art piece—a massive public canvas that highlights the coexistence of the human and natural world. The result is a resilient, beautiful, and non-human-centric architecture.
