Best of #wood

A selection of the ten best of architecture and design stories published on Domus Web where the wood is the protagonist.

Monica Förster, Tara, Zanat. Woodcarving process
Discover below our favorite stories about wood, a material loved by both architects and designers thanks to its versatility, its sustainability and its undeniable beauty.

IMJ tree house: a pine tree supports the tree house designed by Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski for the entrance of the Youth Wing for Art Education at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Monica Förster for Zanat: in her collection for Zanat, Swedish designer Monica Förster finds inspiration in nature to modernize the woodcarvings preserving, however, the genuine technique.

Eno Architectes, Ecopole: for the Ecopole in Concarneau Eno Architectes conceived an iconic building that immediately express its nature, with a project driven by the pragmatic application of the bioclimatic approach.

A chair for Paulo Coelho: Portuguese architect Eduardo Benamor Duarte created the Animistic Chair for Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho: a chair of ash ribs as if they were animate in apparent equilibrium.

Ski school in Courmayeur: LEAPfactory has created for the new Ski and Snowboard School Courmayeur an elegant wooden construction built with BauBuche, Pollmeier’s laminated veneer lumber.

Paul Timmer, Wooden Bike: Paul Timmer, Amsterdam based designer and woodworker, finished to build this super engineered wooden bike, that weighs in at only 11 kg.

Pavilion in a garden: Collective Project conceived a private and secluded retreat from daily life in Bangalore as an inhabitable piece of furniture bridging a lush and naturalistic landscape.

Cliffs Impasse: Antonin Ziegler posed a little volume shaped like an open book in the landscape of Impasse des Falaises to host a private library that is also a place of contemplation.

Puukuokka housing block: OOPEAA completed the first of an energy-efficient trio of multi-story timber-framed flats – the first of this kind built in Finland – that will visually enhance the townscape while offering affordable, eco-efficient housing.

Thomas Kröger, Landhaus: in a small village near Berlin, Thomas Kröger converted a large barn into a country house using the pre-existing language of the house and adapting to new means and rules.

Top: Monica Förster, Tara, Zanat. Woodcarving process

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