Le Festival des Cabanes 2020: La Charbonnière by Collectif Exercice

Read more: For its 2020 edition, the “Hut Festival / Le Festival des cabanes”, an international architectural competition, awarded a prize to the“Exercice” collective. The festival aims at the construction of twelve ephemeral wooden structures in the Lake Annecy region (Savoy, France), selected upon the dialog and relation they create with both their surrounding environment and the greater landscape. Collectif Exercice: Founded in 2016 by three architects (Vincent Vergain, Nicolas Vallée and Nicolas Bien), the collective aims at questioning, exploring and grasping the field of both the natural and built environment. By means of architects’ traditional tools, or through using art installation techniques, the collective’s works provide specific and mindful answers to found situations. Each project is profoundly rooted to its territory’s historic and current context. Video: © Ét