The Institute Itself is an Experiment: Small-Scale Tension Roofs

Design a research institute in the manner of Frei Otto's Institute for Lightweight Structures in Stuttgart — a modest working building that is itself a full-scale prototype, a small saddle-shaped tensile roof over the studio where the theory was being developed and tested. Compose a compact low building with an anticlastic fabric roof stretched between two high and two low points, a single central mast, guy cables to concrete anchors in the grass, soap-film and net models visible through the glazed sides, pine trees around, soft German overcast light, eye-level three-quarter view, 28mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K