Precariously perched seven metres up the façade of a multi-residential building on Pakington Street, St. Kilda, is ‘Nest’. A three-dimensional sculpture of steel mesh, the form was inspired by nature, and in particular the elegant, knitted reed eel nets and fishing baskets of the land’s traditional owners, the Boon Wurrung people.

Its form originated from the shape of the smooth river rock, which was 3D scanned, extruded and manipulated. The mesh generated from the scanning process was enlarged and redrawn to create the final sculpture, which stands at three-and-a-half metres.

Nest hangs delicately between two apartments—an expression visible only from the outside of the building, identifying the main pedestrian entrance. An expression—at scale—of new life and new beginnings, its form serves as an important graphic landmark for 22 Pakington Street.