Flake House is a two-piece, transportable log cabin by French architects OLGGA.
Originally designed in 2006 for the CAUE 72 competition Petites Machines à Habiter (for which it was shortlisted), the cabin will be exhibited at the Festival Estuaire 2009 in Nantes, France next month.
Festival Estuaire runs from 5 June to 16 August.
Photographs are by Fabienne Delafraye, sketches by OLGGA Architects.
Further information from OLGGA Architects follows:
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Flake House
The flake house, a nomadic, road-gauged dwelling, has been conceived to clad the places wherever it lands, as to transpose them in an unusual vision. A poetic shelter, a “folie”, that merges low-tech and hi-tech. The interior finish is smooth and stripped down as to contrast with the traditional look of the external log cladding.
OLGGA sets-up its flake house on the Festival Estuaire 2009 à Nantes
Created in 2006 for the competition “Petites machines à habiter” held by the CAUE 72, OLGGA’ proposal for this nomadic wooden shelter is based on the concept of the “folie”, where the wooden structure is broken in two halves establishing a radical spatial boundary while materializing an unexpected entry sequence.
An object, recalling a broken branch, whose unconventional scale is the main idea of the project: to be built-up, taken down, moved, put down, left behind or taken along, inhabited or left to it’s surrounding.
First a short-listed entry in the competition that gave birth to the concept, then winner of the “Lauriers de la construction bois” of the Salon du Bois in Grenoble in 2007, the flake house causes curiosity and desire.
This year, it is in Nantes (FRANCE) where it will lay home between the 5 june and 16 august at the Festival Estuaire Nantes/ St Nazaire organized by the Lieu Unique.
The Flake house will be located on the site of Frossay (Le Carnet). I.C.I.! (Instant Carnet Island) is a temporary refuge of micro-architectures and light habitat meeting based on the bank of the Loire and open to anybody.
At the end of the festival, the flake house will find a new owner….. The units will be on auction via internet.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 am
Is using logs sustainable? Is this the most efficient strategy given that each log is one tree? Would you not have more pieces if the log is milled?
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 am
So cute, but kitchen, bathroom, etc?
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 am
such a beauty…..
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:42 am
Back Woods Modernism?
Seems kinda gimmicky to me.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 am
very fun project, but the log-ends as a facade are don’t at all contribute as a building system, they seem to me to be just a gimmick. I get the point the its suposed to look like a stack of logs, but that is not architecture.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 am
nice french concept between a japan micro house inside and a northern micro house outside…
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:09 am
like the idea and the gap between contemporary elements and raw material… but after the 5th picture i was dissapointed by the usage of the trees… they had to use half and/or quarter trees to make the roof and the edges… and that looks strange! i guess there would be other ways to build this thing with more elaborate constructions so we can have a “bunch of trees”…
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 am
G(w)ood Job!!
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:20 am
Funny. I like the original by Onix (playground in Groningen) better though.
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
do as a bear does, and shit in the woods
C’est vraiment genial, j’aime bien le concept
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
save trees…?
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I only understood it when I scrolled down and reached the elevation drawings. The breakage is only perceived on the flat elevations and is lost in the realisation. As a built object it does not make any sense to me.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Very nice concept! I like it.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
of course its gimmicky you idiot.!
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
i like it. ive lived in the woods several times in my travelling life and this would blend in very well as a woodland dwelling.. having a wood interior it could easily be built up inside to make a cosy home with a wood burner and the smaller building could be a sweat lodge or bathroom/ shower room.. think narrowboat/ barge.. it would be amazing if you could tow it as a caravan…
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
simply, fresh, open and soft : human maybe?
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
beautiful. i would love one!
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 pm
piet hein eek was the first one doing this
May 25th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
did ever thought about the sustainable issue in this project? such a waste of wood.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
i love the building, especially the interior.
sustainability? …it is not like the forests of the world will be devoured to build these things! not to mention the poor innocent tree has grown back once this house has rotted away in 50 years. What is more sustainable than wood? …freaking eco-nazis.
May 31st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
This is cool.
Timber is sustainable as get, at least where i come from.
Why make it difficult, the simple is often best:)
June 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I was there, I saw it
Something to do!
July 15th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Bravooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
February 5th, 2010 at 6:28 am
Amazing ideea