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Samanea saman
The rain tree
A tropical “living canopy” whose broad dome crown can reach ~30 m across, turning one structural body into a vast field of shade.
Chosen for membraneum because it carries the same logic as tensile fabric architecture: minimum support, maximum cover, climatic protection, and communal shelter.
In Frei Otto’s spirit — “my architecture is the architecture of survival” — it becomes a symbol of light, adaptive architecture built not as monument, but as protection for life.