Offshore wind farms create a schism between different interpretations of wind—wind as power; wind as data; wind as natural phenomena; wind as an agent of destruction. The Point Monument provides the public with a legible, architectural expression of the complexity and power of offshore wind farms. Conversely, the monument also re-introduces the sensorial qualities of wind into what is too often a disembodied planning exercise.
Designed as four distinct masses, the Point Monument guides visitors and planners alike through the daily, seasonal, and generational schedules of wind and infrastructural planning. The monument terminates with a ceremonial wind tower, creating space for infrequent but significant town hall meetings, public comment periods, and tribal consultations. Both an intensely visual and sonic experience, the Point Monument makes wind unignorable as a posthuman stakeholder in a renewable energy project.
