Net architecture

Design: Numen Exhibitet: House for Contemporary Art Z33 / 02.07. – 02.10.2011. Hasselt, Belgium Text, photos & videos: Numen Net consists of multiple layers of flexible nets suspended in the air. The flat layers of the net are subsequently connected to one another on counterpoints thus forming a “floating landscape” open for visitors to […]

Image 76 of 112 from gallery of From Tiny Squares to Urban Parks: 100 Public Spaces From All Around the World. Photograph by Tomasz Zakrzewski

Architects are increasingly using nets to make the most out of spare space in houses, creating giant hammocks that children can use for work, rest or play

Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net, by Numen/For Use.

croatian-austrian design collective numen/for use has created 'net blow-up': an inflatable, box-like space with buoyant black webs fitted tightly inside.

I recently came across Numen's creative interactive installations, a mix between art and design, on the landscape architecture blog Landezine. These are the same guys who strung up an alien-like web of packing tape in Melbourne's Federation Square last year. Their most recent project, Net, is a series of flexible nets suspended in the air, connected at various points to create an undulating and disorienting landscape. Or, as the designers call it, a "community hammock."

The webpage achimmenges.net portrays Achim Menges academic design research as well as architectural and product design work

Image 3 of 19 from gallery of Architecture That Uses Meshes and Nets for Escape, Play and Rest. © Eiji Tomita

Mimesis Architecture Studio designed this bamboo-lined bridge in China's Jiangsu Province to celebrate the region's ancient craft industries