Concept Treehouse
The treehouse is designed to sit within the ‘Forest Garden’ phase of an ‘art deco’ restoration project set within the Alps Maritime outside the historical town of Venice.
Inspiration came from nesting forms found in nature. Suspended 11m above the ground and set amongst the canopies of the local evergreen oak and coastal pine, views open up to the sea and surrounding hills.
Perched on four slender steel columns the ovoid structure and spiral staircase use Western Red Cedar as the main component material. The open platform interlocks with the surrounding tree trunks. External finish uses an ancient Japanese technique called ‘Shou-sugi-ban’, providing a charred and grained patina that merges with the surrounding forest. In contrast self finished cedar is used to define the internal space. The external surfaces of the structure are dressed using carbon fibre rods to provide a randomised fragmentation of the silhouetted form.
