Our intern Heather Scott is heading to Norway to participate in the Bergen International Wood Festival! Heather, along with recent grads Chris Szymberski and Vanessa Goldgrub from the UBC Master of Landscape Architecture program, will be spending a week building new experimental structures that celebrate one of the world’s most versatile materials: wood.
The trio are members of a small group of students — including recent grad Stephanie Aitken from the MLA program and Kristina Strecker from the MArch program — that have been experimenting with wood construction and its unique properties. They have designed and built an installation that was displayed at the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, and another installation that will be displayed on the UBC campus this summer.
The Bergen International Wood Festival is a biannual competition that explores spatial structures in wood. Designers, architects, artists, craftsmen and students from around the world enter the event in teams of three people. The event takes place in the city of Bergen, Norway.
Each team is assigned a location and creates a concept, model and sketches that are reviewed by an international jury. After designs are approved for stability, teams build their structure, which can be any height or length. The completed structures remain on display for four weeks or up to a year.
Learn more about The Bergen International Wood Festival here.
Team website: http://landarchycollective.com/