Hello Wood Camp, Csórompuszta, July 7th-16th, 2018

Text: Anna Zsoldos
Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky

Hello Wood’s project for this summer was a huge and risky task: during the ten days of the camp the team of students worked on building six houses that can be lived in. The programme was referred to as „Cabin Fever”. As a result, it was also an attempt to introduce and make popular an internationally favoured trend of architecture, the construction of small houses. This year’s camp was an exceptional one regarding both its scales and complexity, whilst it was also different from the previous ones regarding its practices of organisation. This means that organisers published an open tender for the designs of the six minor-scale houses, the applications for which were assessed by an international jury with members as follows: Markus Bader from the Berlin-based Raumlabor architects’ office, Theodore Molloy, the founding member of PUP Architect London, Salvatore Peluso, the editor of Domus magazine, Javier Villar and Máté Mészáros, architects of the Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma & Architects.