Design Miami's Deconstructed Tent
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Konstantin Grcic (honored as Design Miami's designer of the year) elected to create a seating installation titled "Netscape" in the center of the shed. -
The 24 seats fashioned from netting hang mid-air and are suspended by a metal frame. "When we were shown [Grcic's] early renderings for Netscape, it was clear he understood the spirit of the space," says Granger. -
Moorehead & Moorehead's design explored the deconstruction of a standard event tent through a series of cuts and folds. The tent’s interior was designed by New York architects Aranda\Lasch. -
The tent's standard flat vinyl panels were manipulated by a simple pattern of hand-cut slits, folded to simultaneously open the panels and create a volumetric surface. -
The pattern was then deployed across the tent in a gradual fade, transitioning from a flat, closed surface to an airy, latticed volume. -
"Most of our efforts went into refining how the pattern behaved," says Granger. "The pinching process tensioned the panel, making much tauter than a typical tent panel. It required several full scale mock-ups experimenting with panel width, slit locations, and vinyl weight to get the volumetric latticework we wanted." -
The tent was the first temporary structure commissioned by Design Miami.
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