Diébédo Francis Kéré bundles logs to form roof of Tippet Rise Art Center pavilion
Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, USA.
The roof, columns and seats of Kéré's Xylem pavilion are made from bundles of local ponderosa and lodge pole pine logs, felled during a "natural pruning" process that aims to save forests from parasitic bugs.
"No healthy trees were felled or damaged during the building process!" said Kéré Architecture in a comment on its Instagram account.
Kéré built Xylem between the main facilities of the art centre and the beginning of its hiking tracks to form a gathering place for visitors of the ranch in Fishtail.
The 256-square-metre structure takes cues from traditional toguna, a shelter typically found in Dogon culture, which spans West African countries Mali and Burkino Faso. Low-level wood and straw roofs rest on a series of columns to offer shade in these pavilions, while also bringing in plenty of natural light and ventilation.
Drawing on this, Xylem's canopy comprises groups of logs slotted in between a modular, hexagonal weathering steel structure to allow daylight to filter through.
The top of these blocks are carved to form a gently undulating roofline. Underneath, the bundles extend down to different levels.
Steel columns covered by longer wooden logs hold up the roof and rest on the polished concrete circular base that forms the platform for seating below.
Kéré wrapped the base of these columns in curv...
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