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On Smith Island, where land yields to water, nine timber pavilions rise as vessels for life, tethered by living ropes that are both structure and story. Like boats moored to land, they float yet remain bound in relation to each other, to people, to place. The ropes guide, shelter, and root the design in craft and ecology, made from hemp and wool by community hands. Here, architecture lives with culture: thresholds become gatherings, resilience is woven, and humans complete the architecture itself, shaping a living bond between land, water, and memory. A quiet structure that grows from culture.