Sacred Fire Wood Shelter.

In collaboration with: Ian Bryane, Jake Farquharson, Hanna Jaglarz

As part of the design/build course my group was assigned to create the sacred fire wood storage for the courtyard at the School of Architecture in Cambridge. We decided to make a shelter that doesn’t just house wood to be dried for a fire but to design a space that provides shelter for the Fire Keeper, who looks after and maintains the fire. The shelter has been built using indigenous building methods. This includes walking the saplings 6.1 km from where we harvested them and getting the inspiration of the form of the structure to be reminiscent of the shape of long houses, using similar bending techniques.