In Collaboration with Design Architects Overland Partners, METALAB was commissioned to provide Design Optimization for 3 large-scale
superstructure canopies spanning over 2 educational and events buildings functions as an epic trellis - providing shaded outdoor rooftop
spaces, an outdoor amphitheater, and most importantly a sort of camouflage for the facility - cloaking it in greenery and nest-like sticks of corten
steel. Working closely with Architects of Record Megamorphosis and Structural Engineering firm IES, METALAB maintained a 3D Master Model as
an accurate tool for pricing and ultimately fabrication. At each phase of development, we kept in focus the mission of the world birding center,
asking of our efforts “would a bird build it that way?”