"It brings the project one step closer to real architecture, where people can enter the dragon and experience the space it creates inside. It's exciting, and it aligns with what we're doing in school."
"We're creating moving architecture with this dragon. The fabric will be draped over this frame, with layered tiles of semitransparent fabric forming surprising shapes and patterns that shift depending on one's point of view."
Dragon Day, a 125-year-old Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning tradition, features first-year architecture students designing and constructing a massive 100-foot dragon that parades through campus on March 27. The red-eyed dragon, covered in sheer black scales with spikes along its frame, will travel from Rand Hall through campus to Sibley Hall on the Arts Quad. This year's theme, "Veiled," incorporates tensile fabric scales that partially conceal the dragon's wooden skeleton, creating layered patterns that shift based on viewing angle. The parade includes the students' signature chant and concludes at the Arts Quad where community members can enter and walk through the dragon's interior spaces, experiencing the architectural design firsthand.
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