Leaving the paper world
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January 11, 2025
Design
Nature
Grace Ebert
All images courtesy of LFZ Studio
In a lush, wooded pocket in Rouen, France, a meditation space shaped like an acorn rests on the forest floor.
In a lush, wooded pocket in Rouen, France, a meditation space rests on the forest floor. Designed by Linfeng Zhou of Vancouver-based LFZ Studio, “Le Monde dans un Gland,” or “The World in an Acorn,” invites visitors into its shell to have a seat and reflect.
Diamond-shaped, interlocking panels of marine plywood nest together to create the scaled cupule of the nut, which allows light to pierce through and cast dappled sun spots around the interior. The entrance mimics a crack in the shell before the root appears, which asks visitors “to step inside and embrace the perspective of an awakening tree.”
Set atop concrete blocks and lined with weather-resistant materials, the immersive acorn is designed to withstand the wet, rainy climate without disrupting the forest ecosystem. Utilizing minimal nails and screws emphasizes a more natural building approach that relies on perfectly cut interlocking components rather than additional hardware.
Find more from LFZ Studio on its website. (via designboom)
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This week the abandoned shed gets a kitchen makeover! Anastasia and Happy the duck enjoy these summer days in the countryside and play in the lake. The whole art studio project is almost finished!
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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.
Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.
We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
0:00 Building a kitchen!
1:21 Disassembling drawers and upcycling antique furniture
2:48 Reusing old floor boards
3:27 Happy the duck and Anastasia go to the lake
5:43 Building is hard!
8:46 Finishing building the cupboard doors
9:23 Afternoon routine with ducks, chickens and goats
10:06 Kitchen makeover almost complete!
14:01 The finished room (maybe my favourite transformation yet?!)
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