The Shed is conceived as an evolving cultural instrument—part museum, part performance hall—dedicated to commissioning new, multidisciplinary works that resist fixed definitions. Its eight-level, fixed building houses galleries, performance spaces, and production studios, each designed to adapt endlessly to the needs of artists. Light plays a critical role in this flexibility, embedded seamlessly within the architecture to support transformation rather than dictate it. Encasing the building is the Shed’s most recognizable gesture: a vast, kinetic shell of translucent ETFE that can glide outward over the plaza to create an expansive public venue. Light activates this structure through a series of accent lights recessed within each apex of the steel framework, allowing the structure itself to glow from within. The ETFE pillows catch and diffuse this indirect light, giving the shell an airy, luminous presence despite its monumental scale. This glow persists even during performances, when blackout shades are drawn, and when the shell is nested tightly against the building—ensuring the architecture remains quietly legible at all times.