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A hotel in the trees

Sweden / 2011

Creation : ENSA Nantes
Manufacturing : Métalobil
Design / Installation: students and teachers of the architecture college of Nantes (ENSA)
Maîtrise d’ouvrage : Oärna Association

Wild utopia lost in the middle of the Swedish forest.

As a teacher of «extreme situations» in Nantes Architecture School, Freddy Bernard, co-manager of Metalobil, goes with his students in Sweden (in the island of Havero village’s lake) to install in the trees a hostel they invented few weeks before. A wild utopia…