TREE HOUSE
In this 2017 edition of Museum Festum we were also given the task of conceiving a Tree-house.
The festival’s site is abundantly planted with oak and pine trees. One of the largest oaks with more than 15 metres, called our attention, not only for its central position in the site, but also for its luxuriant and dense form. Its branches and foliage already designed a space beneath and around it.
Once decided that we would not use the oak tree as structure, the solution consisted in the creation of a series of platforms, supported in various wooden columns, mimicking the surrounding trees.
In this sense, it was important that the platforms could follow the oak’s ascending and twisting form, promoting the feeling of climbing the tree.
This construction, placed at the centre of the festival’s site, ended up becoming a much used leisure space for visitors, but also a logistical centre for the festival’s team, that placed there a box-office and bar.
Its integration in the site eventually generated contiguous areas of rest and bar that allowed a greater interaction with the festival’s other structures and, ultimately, guided the visitor’s path.
Project type: Installtion/Logistics center/ Leisure space.
Site: Monte Redondo, Leiria
Date: August, 2017
Duration: 1 week
Promotor: Museum Festum: Festival Eco Cultural
Design/Construction: Colectivo Til
Photography: Colectivo Til
Collaborations: Daniel Carvalho, João Carvalho, João Milino, Joel Correia.