At the occasion of the Villa Medici Festival des Cabanes 2022, the KOZ team has assembled under a pine tree memories of clever or cobbled-together constructions, found here and there, to serve a picturesque place.
Under the pine, a suspended gallery, ideal for contemplating the hypnotic wave of the flowery meadow.
Under the pine, bunches of vines in the shade of the pergola.
Under the pine, the traveller rises into the clouds as if on Mount Tai to contemplate the panorama of hills, roofs and domes.
Under the pine, the fragile shelter of a nursery keeper, bathed in freshness, colours and smells of this small temporary and edible Eden.
Under the pine, the digital sophistication of the wood pieces and their assembly meet the thick roughness of its living bark.
Construction materials: manufactured wood (Maritime pine panels, Austrian spruce posts and beams, “Suteki” metal connectors), synthetic rope, reused EPDM membrane, fountain, plants.
Year of realization: 2022
Dimensions: 11 x 3 x 4.25 metres
Key figures:
3 days of assembly
4 days of disassembly
Use of bark beetle wood
Weight of the structure: 2 tons
In partnership with: KI-WOOD, FC URBAN DESIGNER, TBD, VILL.AE
About KOZ
KOZ Architectes was created in 1999 by Christophe Ouhayoun and Nicolas Ziesel, graduates of ENSA-Paris Belleville. Christophe is a State Architect. Nicolas is a teacher at ENSAP-Lille and vice-president of AFEX. Since its foundation, KOZ has participated in the revival of wood architecture in France and in tropical forest areas. From 2001 to 2016, KOZ co-founded the PLAN01 collective, and since 2007 the environmental engineering office PLAN02. From 2007 to 2014, the agency co-founded the FRENCHTOUCH association, publisher of “l’annuel optimiste”, in charge of the co-commissioning and scenography of the French pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. Since 2017, KOZ has participated in the architecture section of the WOODRISE meetings through ephemeral pavilions designed and built with schools. KOZ also collaborates regularly with the informal collective PAM Paysage, notably regarding the creation of an edible garden. PAM Paysage brings together Mélanie Ducaroir and Pauline Rabin Le Gall, DPLG landscape architects, and Anne Loisel, DPLG architect.
