.Atelier yokyok’s les chaumes huts constructed from recycled thatch In Roumare woods near Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok vegetations Les Chaumes, a series of huts made of wood constructs as well as recycled thatch, the weak arises of lawn. These totemic imposing sculptures are actually semi-open due to the fact that the design gallery, which likewise developed the anamorphic bench, wishes people to step inside them and also stick their heads out, as if they were actually using the installations like garments and also carrying their weight on their shoulders. It is actually a playful try at active artworks, at the same time drawing influences from the heritages of spirits and animals in celebrations.
Atelier YokYok views Les Chaumes as a memoir of stupendous pets, hulking and bulging in appearance. They may likewise stimulate the layers of the Kukeri clothing in Bulgaria, intricate garments put on during the course of standard rituals suggested to eject bogeys. There’s a refined mixture of animal hair hidden in the wooden bottom of these huts in the forest, concealed through layers of yard stems.
For the layout center, Les Chaumes isn’t simply a collection of artworks, yet a reminder of the concept of clothes, the skin, the protective fur for winter months, and ceremonial costumes that are actually regularly kept in mind. Les Chaumes is embeded in the center of the woodland for the Foru00eat Monumentale occasion through Rouen Mu00e9tropole. The setup performs show in the Roumare woods near Rouen from June 2024 to September 2026.
all pictures thanks to Atelier YokYok Covered with coating constructed from flour, linseed oil and also black cleansing soap Atelier YokYok wished to utilize nearby components for Les Chaumes, hence using thatch, which is easily accessible in the area of Rouen. Through extension, it’s also a traditional roofing procedure, using dry out components like straw as well as splints. The thatch the concept studio gathered for the totemic sculptures has to do with three decades old.
They highlight that they failed to cut splints specifically for the setups, as they desired to advance the suggestion of reusing and revaluing rubbish. No wonder huts have come to be the key concept for the sculptures. These constructs match right into mother nature, within the forest in Rouen.
Under the layers of thatch, the concept studio constructs a wooden structure to frame the huts. These are actually boards put together and partitioned rounded profiles in a workshop in Eure. They repainted all of them along with flour paint, a type of Swedish paint made inside the workshop coming from flour, linseed oil, black soap, iron sulfate, and also organic pigments.
This finishing provides outdoor security to Les Chaumes, protecting the huts coming from wetness, bugs, and also fungi.in the woods of Rouen in France, Atelier YokYok vegetations Les Chaumes 300 packages of recovered thatch made use of for Les Chaumes There’s an additional construct in Atelier YokYok’s Les Chaumes, crafted from crack bamboo. The design gallery remedies it around the wooden framework utilizing natural sisal string. The last contacts for the huts happen via the recycled thatch, recuperated in bundles of splints with help from a seasoned thatcher.
The group incorporates that the reed stems were actually pruned and then positioned from bottom to top to enable water-proofing. In total, there are 300 bunches of recovered thatch utilized for Les Chaumes. The setup gets on display screen in the Roumare rainforest near Rouen coming from June 2024 to September 2026, accompanying the event at the Maison d’Architecture de Normandie (in Rouen), which manages up until September 7, 2024.
the concept studio prefers individuals to tip inside all of them and stick their scalps outthe active artworks pull determines coming from the practices of spirits and animals in gatheringsAtelier YokYok sees Les Chaumes as a memoir of gigantic animalsthe setup is on display in the Roumare rainforest near Rouen from June 2024 to September 2026.