Hello Wood carnival
In the Hungarian village of Csóromfölde, near Lake Balaton, the tenth edition of the Hello Wood summer school took place. Over the years, a village has grown in the fields, which comes to life once a year and is built by a community of builders from around the world. This year, it was set among corn and sunflowers, with an especially festive atmosphere. The common theme was carnival.
At the dusty road stands a wooden archway adorned with black t-shirts of the arriving architects. It is a symbolic moment of handing over. The process of absorbing new experiences begins through working with wood and creating within a community of other builders.
Nineteen teams composed of students and leading architects created objects over five days, arising from the framework themes HOME, MARS, SAPIENS, FAITH, or their own designs. Among the Czech architects leading their own projects were Mjölk architects, Alžběta Brůhová with colleagues from Belgium and Spain, and Vojta Němec with Martial Marquet.
The objects were meant to be experimental, provocative, and also simply mobile. Part of the process included preparing masks and choreography for the final presentation and carnival.
The procession marching across the horizon of the golden field resembled the Dance of Death from Bergman's Seventh Seal. Among the procession was an ice cream cart with a throne for the ice cream maker as an allegory of pleasure and joy; the enchanted Princess Sofia, who woke from ice after 2000 years, probably as a result of global warming, searching for her groom (by Mjölk architects); cabins for sinners; a nomadic roof woven in a traditional straw-roof technique that responds to the movements of those carrying it with its own dance (WE MASK by Alžběta Brůhová and others), and many other great projects. The objects were left in the village, where a traditional festival of music and art took place.
This year’s Hello Wood was an escalation of previous years and a festive farewell. The organizers of Hello Wood have managed to create an international network of contacts based on irreplaceable personal experience and shared memories over the past ten years. For the future, they continue in a new, yet unknown format called the Builders Society. Its initiation was symbolized by the closing ceremony of the cathedral construction. Each person became the bearer of one enormous pillar, supporting the communal work.
Vendula Tůmová / BoysPlayNice
> www.hellowoodfestival.com
At the dusty road stands a wooden archway adorned with black t-shirts of the arriving architects. It is a symbolic moment of handing over. The process of absorbing new experiences begins through working with wood and creating within a community of other builders.
Nineteen teams composed of students and leading architects created objects over five days, arising from the framework themes HOME, MARS, SAPIENS, FAITH, or their own designs. Among the Czech architects leading their own projects were Mjölk architects, Alžběta Brůhová with colleagues from Belgium and Spain, and Vojta Němec with Martial Marquet.
The objects were meant to be experimental, provocative, and also simply mobile. Part of the process included preparing masks and choreography for the final presentation and carnival.
The procession marching across the horizon of the golden field resembled the Dance of Death from Bergman's Seventh Seal. Among the procession was an ice cream cart with a throne for the ice cream maker as an allegory of pleasure and joy; the enchanted Princess Sofia, who woke from ice after 2000 years, probably as a result of global warming, searching for her groom (by Mjölk architects); cabins for sinners; a nomadic roof woven in a traditional straw-roof technique that responds to the movements of those carrying it with its own dance (WE MASK by Alžběta Brůhová and others), and many other great projects. The objects were left in the village, where a traditional festival of music and art took place.
This year’s Hello Wood was an escalation of previous years and a festive farewell. The organizers of Hello Wood have managed to create an international network of contacts based on irreplaceable personal experience and shared memories over the past ten years. For the future, they continue in a new, yet unknown format called the Builders Society. Its initiation was symbolized by the closing ceremony of the cathedral construction. Each person became the bearer of one enormous pillar, supporting the communal work.
Vendula Tůmová / BoysPlayNice
> www.hellowoodfestival.com
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