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Anunu Box

Our studio class was commissioned by a real estate development company to design birdhouses for a site along the river in downtown Chicago. Throughout the process we received feedback from the developers, architects, and landscape architects of the site.

I designed this birdhouse for the Tree swallow. The design evolved out of the need for a well ventilated, durable, and insulated birdhouse that had sun and rain protection.

Following form exploration, I pursued a tessellated form inspired by the architecture at the site. I used paper folding to develop that form and this proved difficult to translate to wood. I pivoted, reducing the form to this double tetrahedron. I used organic indigo to dye the wood a colour that would last in the elements and mimic the shimmering iridescent nature of the river, the surrounding glass architecture, and the tree swallow itself.

 The project concluded with poster presentations for all of the birdhouses. These presentations were made to a panel of stakeholders who would later deliberate and select a handful of the birdhouses to go out into a park.

Anunu Box was selected. You can find the birdhouse in the south bank river walk park off of Harrison street in downtown Chicago.