hytte i skov. Festival des Cabanes 2024
The pavilion is built as a part of the Festival des Cabanes 2024 along with 12 other winners in the Sources of Lake Annecy area. Built with pine from a local sawmill, cotton canvas and hemp rope in June 2024, the pavilion will be open for visits until November. It is an interpretation of the cabin in the woods as well as the nature of its specific site:
“Cabins like a work of art or a child's dream. The dream of a life to be built, of a future to be invented. A new way of inhabiting the world, of expanding it”.
There is a special character to the light under trees. Some of it is reflected away entirely in the canopy, some is absorbed in the translucent leaves of the trees, while only a few rays of sunlight make it all the way through, the shadows as mesmerizing as the light itself. This cabin is a celebration of that light.
Taking its origin in the primordial childhood blanket fort, the wooden structure supports flowing walls of fabric. The cabin’s wide roof and the ropes and pegs designate an area between inside and outside, where one might sit in its shade.
With no immediately visible entrance, the cabin leads visitors off the path and invites them to interact with the structure, lift the cloth, and step up into the atmospheric interior of the cabin. Blurring or dimming some senses, but heightening others.
The width of the roof and the translucency of the fabric allow no direct sunlight into the cabin, instead transforming the three-dimensional world outside into a two-dimensional projection on the walls. The roof, forest, and structure all partake in a play of shadows on the enclosing fabric. Each day, hour, and weather situation will form a unique, elusive experience.
Designed and built by bachelor students at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen:
Adam Haugaard
Anders Thøstesen
Marte Nås Kristiansen
Jonathan Evald
Sigrid Gustafsson
Stine Ingvardsen
Viktor Abkjer Steffensen
