i&sd architecture+design projects

Garden hut

prototype, Métis,
QC, Canada
2002

the project was a
winner of a
competition
organized by the
Métis International Garden
Festival
in April-May
2002

The garden hut is
exactly on the
border between a
building and an
object; it is a
building, because
it has interior space
and a defined
relationship with its
environment, but an
object because it is
small and
factory-built.
At the core of our
design stays a play
between two and
three-dimensional.
The building simply
opens, and therefore
looses its enclosed
space to get the
character of a
sculpture or furniture
object.
But in change the
three-dimensional
walls, while turning
into a surface,
completely merge
the interior space
with the landscape
around.
Maybe a bit too
literally - but small
projects have their
advantages, after all.

Probably the
inspiration to that is
exactly the same thing
which makes people to
wear shorts and
T-shirts at the very first
sign of warm weather,
and of what makes the
Mont-Royal trees to
bloom, with urgency,
at the beggining of May.

Materials: walls in
wood studs 3”x3”
and strips of clear
glass, metal bars
for the corner
articulation,
plywood panels
for the roof.



				Garden hut prototype, Métis, QC, Canada 2002 the project was a winner of a competition organized by the Métis International Garden Festival in April-May 2002 The garden hut is exactly on the border between a building and an object; it is a building, because it has interior space and a defined relationship with its environment, but an object because it is small and factory-built. At the core of our design stays a play between two and three-dimensional. The building simply opens, and therefore looses its enclosed space to get the character of a sculpture or furniture object. But in change the three-dimensional walls, while turning into a surface, completely merge the interior space with the landscape around. Maybe a bit too literally - but small projects have their advantages, after all. Probably the inspiration to that is exactly the same thing which makes people to wear shorts and T-shirts at the very first sign of warm weather, and of what makes the Mont-Royal trees to bloom, with urgency, at the beggining of May. Materials: walls in wood studs 3”x3” and strips of clear glass, metal bars for the corner articulation, plywood panels for the roof.