Matsudai Small Tower

In the framework of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal in the north of Japan, the Art Front Gallery, which organized the event, commissioned an installation from the architects. They proposed a project that plays with the landscape, the winter snow (which can reach 7 metres or 23 feet!), the vistas, and the trekking that visitors do. In this exhibition, the works were spread throughout a series of quite wild, sparsely populated valleys. The Matsudai Small Tower is an installation that presents two functions in a tower covered with a grid of galvanized steel: a point of view on the site in the hieratic pose of a weird-looking animal, and a space that plays with the snow and the treetops, and affords campers three platforms of duckboards for an 'experimental night'.