Article source: Charles Sowers Studios

Windswept consists of 612 freely rotating wind direction indicators mounted parallel to the wall creating an architectural scale instrument for observing the complex interaction between wind and the building. The wind arrows serve as discrete data points indicating the direction of local flow within the larger phenomenon. Wind gusts, rippling and swirling through the sculpture, visually reveal the complex and ever-changing ways the wind interacts with the building and the environment.

Image Courtesy Bruce Damonte

• Architects: Charles Sowers Studios
• Project: Windswept
• Location: Randal Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA
• Size: 35’ length / 20’ height
• Client: San Francisco Arts Commission/Randall Museum
• Contractor: Rocket Science
• Engineer: Hom-Pisano Engineers
• Project Completion: 11/19/2010
• Photography: Bruce Damonte
• Architectural metal wall panels: Provided by QC Facades Rainscreen Solutions, Salt Lake City, UT
• Software used: Autocad and Autodesk Inventor

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