Toshiko Mori’s design for the Thread Artist Residency and cultural center was completed in Sinthian, in the Tambacounda region of Senegal. It was intended to catalyze exchange between West African artists, locals, and a global audience. The title Thread acknowledges the support of the Anni Albers Foundation, the titular figure of which was renowned for her weavings that were learned at the Bauhaus school in Germany, where she later taught as well. The project brings together the Bauhaus history of craft and tradition with that of Mori’s research into the vernacular traditions of knotting and weaving. The building carries a sweeping thatched roof that is influenced by vernacular conventions learned through collaboration, designed through software, and built with local craftsmen. Mori notes that thatched roof construction occurs everywhere in the world and allows for an increase in size, performance, and span when combined with contemporary design tools and engineering knowledge. Shown here as a scale model, one can see the typological basis of the roof and undulating geometries that reorganize the directionality of the weave in ways that afford diversity of forms.