The project is a small timber structure built out of natural building materials in a small woodland in Dorset.
Nozomi has worked as the designer and the maker of the project.
The key concept of the project was to play with the smallness and the simplicity of a square plan to create a spacious, calm and comfortable retreat space, where one could spend the night amongst the tree canopy.
The design of the project developed out of a balance between pre-designed ideas and design improvisation that occurred while building on site.
The experience of spending time on site; taking refuge under the bare frame structure in the midst of the winter provideda chance to imagine the space and implement the ideas as the project went along.
Materials:
Cork as insulation and exposed wall cladding (ISOCOR), Recycled demin insulation (Innotherm Metisse) locally sourced Western Red Cedar cladding, Douglas fir primary structure and reclaimed glazing and telegraph poles as the base structure. Interior is finished with birch plywood floor and wall, lime rendered walls and hessian fabric ceiling.
Project Team:
Nozomi Nakabayashi, Mark Torrens, Elizabeth Cunningham, Marco Bencivenga, Jack Hawker, James Stubbs, Federico Forestiero, Manvir Hansra
Photos by Henrietta Williams
Completed 2015 February