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# Austrian design collective builds play structure to take strings to new heights
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/austrian-design-collective-takes-strings-new-heights/
- Published: 2014-06-30T13:30:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:07.000Z
- Description: Numen builds a free-form climbing gym
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, numen, playground, ropes, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

European design collective [Numen](http://www.numen.eu/?ref=killscreen.com) has been working at the boundaries of spatial and industrial design for more 15 years. They’ve constructed [enormous web structures](http://www.numen.eu/installations/tape/tokyo/?ref=killscreen.com), as if conceived by a giant spider, and [wombs built from carpet](http://www.numen.eu/installations/tuft/pula/?ref=killscreen.com). Their newest work was a prototype developed in Vienna that’s an adaptation of those ropey play structures you might remember as a child.

On the exterior, *String Prototype* appears to be a giant inflatable dome, but on the inside, dozens of ropes keep viewers/players aloft. Numen says the end effect is “impossibility of perception of scale and direction results in simultaneous feeling of immenseness and absence of space.”

*[See more of their work here](http://www.numen.eu/?ref=killscreen.com)*.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/inflatable_numen_2.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/inflatable_size_numen_1.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/inflatable.jpg)