.Atelier yokyok’s les chaumes huts constructed from recycled thatch In Roumare forest near Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok plants Les Chaumes, a series of huts made of wood designs and recycled thatch, the hollow originates of yard. These totemic imposing sculptures are semi-open given that the style gallery, which additionally generated the anamorphic bench, wishes people to tip inside them and also adhere their heads out, as if they were wearing the setups like garments as well as lugging their weight on their shoulders. It’s a spirited effort at active arts pieces, all the while drawing effects from the heritages of spirits and also animals in parties.
Atelier YokYok views Les Chaumes as a memoir of huge pets, hulking and also protruding in look. They may likewise conjure the coatings of the Kukeri outfits in Bulgaria, fancy garments put on during conventional routines implied to eliminate fiends. There is actually a subtle blend of animal coat hidden in the wood base of these huts in the woods, covered by layers of yard controls.
For the style workshop, Les Chaumes isn’t merely a collection of art work, yet a pointer of the suggestion of clothing, the skin layer, the preventive coat for winter months, and also liturgical clothing that are always born in mind. Les Chaumes is embeded in the soul of the forest for the Foru00eat Monumentale event by Rouen Mu00e9tropole. The setup gets on display in the Roumare forest near Rouen from June 2024 to September 2026.
all images courtesy of Atelier YokYok Coated with paint made of flour, linseed oil as well as dark detergent Atelier YokYok intended to make use of local area components for Les Chaumes, thus making use of thatch, which is actually quickly offered in the city of Rouen. Through extension, it is actually also a standard roof covering technique, using dry components like straw as well as splints. The thatch the concept studio compiled for the totemic sculptures is about thirty years aged.
They highlight that they really did not cut reeds particularly for the installations, as they desired to put forward the tip of recycling as well as revaluing misuse. Not surprising that huts have come to be the vital design for the sculptures. These constructs fit straight into mother nature, within the woods in Rouen.
Under the levels of thatch, the design workshop creates a wooden base to prepare the huts. These are panels assembled and also cut into rounded profile pages in a workshop in Eure. They painted all of them with flour coating, a kind of Swedish paint made inside the workshop from flour, linseed oil, dark soap, iron sulfate, and organic pigments.
This layer gives exterior security to Les Chaumes, shielding the huts coming from wetness, bugs, and fungi.in the woods of Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok vegetations Les Chaumes 300 bunches of recovered thatch used for Les Chaumes There’s an additional construct in Atelier YokYok’s Les Chaumes, made from crack bamboo. The concept studio remedies it around the wood framework utilizing organic sisal string. The final touches for the huts happen by means of the reused thatch, recouped in bundles of reeds with the aid of a seasoned thatcher.
The crew incorporates that the splint controls were actually trimmed and then positioned from bottom to top to permit water-proofing. In overall, there are actually 300 bundles of reclaimed thatch used for Les Chaumes. The setup performs show in the Roumare woods near Rouen coming from June 2024 to September 2026, coinciding with the event at the Maison d’Architecture de Normandie (in Rouen), which manages till September 7, 2024.
the design workshop desires people to tip inside all of them as well as adhere their heads outthe involved arts pieces pull determines from the traditions of spirits and creatures in gatheringsAtelier YokYok finds Les Chaumes as a recollection of immense animalsthe installation gets on display screen in the Roumare woodland near Rouen coming from June 2024 to September 2026.