What Would You Do with a Kilometer of Wood?

Earlier this August, the Danish WoodWorks Association challenged designers to get the tools out and set all imagination free at the Copenhagen International Wood Festival – the first of its kind in Denmark.

Fifteen creative teams with each three team members had to come up with a design for a sculpture created in wood and then build it in a public exhibition in Copenhagen’s Øster Anlæg park between August 10 and 15. WoodWorks supplied the teams with unlimited amounts of wood and screws, also set up a camp during the festival with a café serving lunch and dinner for the participants and provided safe containers to keep tools in.

A jury of art and architectural experts - comprising Ulla Norton Kierkegaard & Nanna Berghardt of Statens Museum for Kunst and Kjersti Wikstrøm & Danielle Jørgensen of the Danish Architecture Center - then selected 3 prize winners, honoring the design “Cucoon” by team Meyer & Co. with the first prize. Second and third place went to the designs “Træet” by Brandenberg & Co. and “Möbl” by Mouridsen & Co. The complete list of the 15 finalists can be seen here.

The real prize though was the transformation of one of Copenhagen’s most beautiful parks (just across from the National Art Museum) into a landscape of inspiring forms.

Images: Copenhagen International Wood Festival