From Sat 29 Jan 2022 until Fri 25 Mar 2022 there will be an exhibition at the Solstice Art Center in Navan, Ireland called “There is a forest in my backyard but my house is built from trees grown far away”
Being a collaborative project between Estonian and Irish architects, the exhibiting architects are: Creatomus Solutions, Hannigan Cooke Architects, Joseph Mackey Architects, Kaja Pae and Paco Ulman, OGU Architects, Peeter Pere Architects, Robert Bourke Architects, Ruumiringlus, Studio Kuidas, and Wrkshop.
As a natural building material, wood contains a unique richness which is impacted by many factors including climate and topography. Whether the building site is next to a forest or not, timber used in construction has been subjected to an industrial decision making process that dictates its final physical properties. In this act of translation, where wood is often treated similarly to other inanimate materials, a tree’s uniqueness is sacrificed for transportability, structural consistency and usability.
Focusing on the characteristics of wood, the exhibition explores the act of transformation across the life cycle of the material from extraction to transportation, standardisation to encapsulation and eventual disassembly for potential reuse. In seeking out the unique traits of timber, it asks how industry and construction can learn from and be shaped by these inherent qualities of the material. What are the demands of the building industry for wood materials and what are the limitations and opportunities of this? Is it necessary for a designer to consider the life cycle of the wood? What opportunity exists to interpret and reuse standardised material extracted from existing sources following deconstruction?
The exhibition There is a forest in my backyard but my house is built from trees grown far away / Mu maja pole puudest, mis kasvavad kodu taga metsas is the result of a competition and creative exchange between Estonia and Ireland called Wood Works. The exchange was initiated by the Estonian Association of Architects (EAA) in partnership with the Estonian Centre for Architecture (ECA) and the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF). The exhibition proposal was selected through the Wood Works Curatorial Team Competition in 2020, judged by the EAA, ECA and IAF.
Peeter Pere Arhitektid has chosen Tuulikki Bartosik and Sander Mölder to compose a piece and create a sound installation for their exhibit.
The piece is called
Wood Wide Web - 7-movement electroacoustic composition for tape and accordion
All the sounds used originate from the acoustic free-bass accordion and the same instrument used prepared with seed shell shaker and different simple percussion instruments to field recordings.
Sander Mölder - composition, production
Tuulikki Bartosik - free-bass accordion, composition
Metsa loomine - The creation of the forest
Elanikud kolivad sisse - The creatures are moving in
Suvi metsas - In the full bloom
Talv metsas - Hibernation
Metsamasinad töös - Forestry machines in action
Metsa puudest said tuulekellad - Rebirth of the trees as wind chimes
Metsa pühakoda - Forest sanctuary
The story
Accordion experimenter and composer Tuulikki Bartosik and composer/producer Sander Mölder have explored the vast sound array of Estonian woodlands to create a 7-movement electroacoustic composition for tape and free-bass accordion. The sounds presented originate from two different accordions, which they have prepared and field recordings from Nordic nature.
