Tabernacle_Studio-in-the-Woods

Somerset_UK_2017

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Tabernacle is an installation built with students during a long week end around a centuries-old chestnut tree, as an artistic as well as a structural experiment.

The question was this:
Is it possible to create a space around the old tree without touching it only by using structurally negligible, finger-thin wooden wands for the construction?

None of the few hundred tall legs would stand up alone, but together they form a rigid structure in which the load is equally distributed between the members.

The dynamic space between the old trunk and the structure lends new quality to both.

With co-leader Fergus Feilden of Feilden Fowles.

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