.Atelier yokyok’s les chaumes huts crafted from recycled thatch In Roumare forest near Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok plants Les Chaumes, a series of huts made from timber frameworks and recycled thatch, the hollow stems of grass. These totemic imposing sculptures are actually semi-open due to the fact that the design salon, which additionally produced the anamorphic bench, wishes people to tip inside them and stick their leave, as if they were using the installations like garments and lugging their weight on their shoulders. It is actually a fun effort at involved art work, at the same time attracting impacts from the traditions of sens and also creatures in events.
Atelier YokYok observes Les Chaumes as a memoir of gigantic animals, hulking as well as bulging in appeal. They may additionally rouse the levels of the Kukeri clothing in Bulgaria, complex garments worn throughout standard habits suggested to expel fiends. There is actually a refined mixture of animal coat concealed in the wood foundation of these huts in the woodland, covered through coatings of turf controls.
For the concept workshop, Les Chaumes isn’t only a set of art work, but a reminder of the tip of apparel, the skin, the defensive coat for wintertime, and mannered costumes that are consistently born in mind. Les Chaumes is actually set in the soul of the woodland for the Foru00eat Monumentale activity through Rouen Mu00e9tropole. The installation gets on display in the Roumare woods near Rouen coming from June 2024 to September 2026.
all images courtesy of Atelier YokYok Coated with coating constructed from flour, linseed oil as well as black soap Atelier YokYok intended to use nearby materials for Les Chaumes, as a result using thatch, which is quickly offered in the urban area of Rouen. Through extension, it is actually also a standard roofing approach, making use of dry out products like straw and also reeds. The thatch the layout center acquired for the totemic sculptures concerns three decades outdated.
They emphasize that they failed to cut reeds especially for the installations, as they would like to put forward the idea of reusing and revaluing waste. Not surprising that huts have actually come to be the crucial style for the sculptures. These frameworks fit right into mother nature, within the rainforest in Rouen.
Under the levels of thatch, the style workshop creates a timber foundation to design the huts. These are panels assembled and partitioned curved profile pages in a workshop in Eure. They repainted them with flour paint, a kind of Swedish coating made inside the workshop from flour, linseed oil, dark detergent, iron sulfate, and also all-natural pigments.
This finish provides outdoor security to Les Chaumes, sheltering the huts from moisture, pests, and fungi.in the rainforest of Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok vegetations Les Chaumes 300 bundles of redeemed thatch made use of for Les Chaumes There’s a second structure in Atelier YokYok’s Les Chaumes, constructed from crack bamboo. The design salon repairs it around the timber framework making use of organic sisal string. The final touches for the huts come with the reused thatch, bounced back in bundles of reeds with the help of a skilled thatcher.
The crew adds that the splint stems were actually cut and after that put coming from bottom to top to enable basement waterproofing. In total, there are actually 300 bunches of redeemed thatch utilized for Les Chaumes. The setup is on display in the Roumare woodland near Rouen coming from June 2024 to September 2026, accompanying the exhibit at the Maison d’Architecture de Normandie (in Rouen), which manages up until September 7, 2024.
the concept center wants folks to step inside them and also stick their heads outthe interactive artworks attract influences coming from the heritages of sens as well as animals in gatheringsAtelier YokYok finds Les Chaumes as a retrospection of stupendous animalsthe installation gets on screen in the Roumare forest near Rouen from June 2024 to September 2026.