Selected work / Boston, Massachusetts

lululemon
Prudential Center.

Nearly 1,200 square feet of printed mesh turn three projecting bays into one continuous architectural surface at lululemon’s Prudential Center storefront.

Wide night streetscape of lululemon’s three illuminated Prudential Center window bays with a pedestrian moving through the foreground in Boston.
Scale
Nearly 1,200 square feet
Setting
Three bay windows
Prudential Center main entrance
Material
Recycled fiber-reinforced PETG
Decibel’s role
Design development through installation

The brief

Three bays.
One continuous surface.

At the Prudential Center’s main entrance, three projecting window bays give lululemon’s Boston store an unusually visible architectural edge. The client’s renderings imagined a flowing mesh wrapping three sides of each bay.

The challenge was not the curve alone, but the transitions: carrying the pattern around corners, across panel joints, and from bay to bay without losing the sweep of the original design.

Our scope: design development, computational design, engineering and rigging details, fabrication, finishing, delivery, and installation.

Three illuminated lululemon window bays at Prudential Center seen through a blurred foreground element, emphasizing depth across the Boston storefront.
Seen through a soft foreground, the three bays read as a layered part of the Boston streetscape.
Black-and-white view into a corner where printed mesh panels meet during installation at lululemon Prudential Center in Boston.
During installation, the inside corner reveals how separate panels were tuned to carry the mesh continuously from one plane to the next.

The approach

The pattern had to
turn the corner.

Decibel developed the surface, corner connections, panel logic, and suspension details together. Computational design translated the overall wave into modular sections that could be fabricated independently and still align as one continuous pattern.

Robotic LFAM produced the open mesh directly from the digital geometry. The ribs and visible layers are not a finish applied afterward; they are the structure and surface of the installation.

Black-and-white close-up of layered printed mesh loops for lululemon’s Prudential Center architectural installation in Boston.
At close range, the repeated loops reveal the layered extrusion that gives the mesh its depth, rhythm, and changing shadow.
Illuminated lululemon logo and Prudential Center window bays framed by the custom printed mesh installation in Boston.
The illuminated lululemon mark sits within the same mesh field, tying identity to the architecture rather than layering it on afterward.
Wide view of two illuminated lululemon Prudential Center bays with the printed mesh installation reflected across a dark foreground surface.
Reflections extend the illuminated mesh into the plaza, changing the storefront as the viewer moves past it.

The making

Built in sections.
Aligned on site.

Nearly 1,200 square feet of mesh was printed in recycled fiber-reinforced PETG. Breaking the surface into modular sections made the geometry manageable through printing, finishing, transport, and installation.

The assembled panels were suspended from Unistrut using aircraft cable and adjustable grippers. That adjustability mattered on site: each section could be tuned until the pattern and profile aligned across all three bays.

Installation took place while the new store buildout was still active, so access and sequencing were coordinated with the GC and adjacent trades. From the street, the separate suspended pieces read as one sculptural frontage.

Wide view of a KUKA robotic arm producing a lululemon-logo mesh panel for the Prudential Center installation at Decibel.
At Decibel, the robotic cell builds the logo-integrated panel directly from the digital toolpath.
Installer aligning printed mesh panels inside a lululemon Prudential Center window bay, framed by ladders and structural steel in Boston.
Installation happened inside an active store buildout, with access and sequencing coordinated around other trades.
Close view of Unistrut, aircraft cable, and attachment points suspending printed mesh panels at lululemon Prudential Center in Boston.
Unistrut, aircraft cable, and adjustable grippers gave each suspended panel enough movement to align the wave across the bays.
Daytime street view of lululemon’s three Prudential Center window bays with pedestrians moving through the foreground in Boston.
At street level, the three bays become part of the everyday movement through the Prudential Center plaza.
Tree-framed view of an illuminated lululemon Prudential Center bay showing the printed mesh installation behind the glazing.
Framed through the trees, a single bay reads almost like a lantern—the mesh holding depth inside the glass.
Wide dusk view of the three illuminated lululemon Prudential Center bays from the plaza, showing the mesh installation within the larger Boston facade.
From the plaza, the three bays read as one illuminated composition within the larger Prudential Center facade.

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