In a lush, wooded pocket in Rouen, France, a meditation area rests on the forest flooring. Designed by Linfeng Zhou of Vancouver-based LFZ Studio, “Le Monde dans un Gland,” or “The World in an Acorn,” invitations guests into its shell to have a seat and replicate.
Diamond-shaped, interlocking panels of marine plywood nest collectively to create the scaled cupule of the nut, which permits gentle to pierce by and forged dappled solar spots across the inside. The doorway mimics a crack within the shell earlier than the basis seems, which asks guests “to step inside and embrace the perspective of an awakening tree.”
Set atop concrete blocks and lined with weather-resistant supplies, the immersive acorn is designed to resist the moist, wet local weather with out disrupting the forest ecosystem. Using minimal nails and screws emphasizes a extra pure constructing method that depends on completely lower interlocking elements fairly than further {hardware}.
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