An evocative temporary installation has opened in the main square of Albury on the Victoria-New South Wales border.
See the Forest by Akimbo Architecture is the latest pavilion in the City of Albury’s Summer Place series.
The semi-circular form contains within it a “forest” of live-edge timber slabs, which are representative of the trees along the Murray River that could be up to 1,000 years old.
The riverside trees have provided wood for fire, bark for canoes and roofs for water vessels for the local Wiradjuri people for thousands of years.
The timber pieces have been sourced from sustainably managed timber plantations and steel for the structure is recycled from a previous Summer Place pavilion designed by Chrofi.
“See the forest” by Akimbo Architecture.
Image:
Jeremy Weihrauch
The exterior of the pavilion is made from blackened timber boards which have been salvaged from the Black Summer bushfires near Corryong.
The pavilion is sited askew from the orthogonal geometry of Albury’s QEII Square and creates a new point of gravity in the space.
Visitors are drawn to the centre of the structure by the warm tones of the raw timber slabs and once inside, the smell and tactility of the pieces transforms the interior space into an immersive experience.
See the Forest will be open until the end of March 2022.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
