Forest Temple / Marco Casagrande

© Lina Pilibaviciute

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title="© Juozas Masiulis"
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title="© Lidija Kaleninikovaite"
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title="© Lina Pilibaviciute"
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  Architects: Marco Casagrande
  
  


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  Location: Lithuania
  
  


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  Project Year: 2016
  
  


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  Photographs: Lina Pilibaviciute, Juozas Masiulis, Lidija Kaleninikovaite, Berta Tilmantaite, Gabriele Stravinskaite
  
  

© Juozas Masiulis

Forest Temple is a result of the Constructive Shamanism workshop in Lithuania, 2016. A multi-disciplinary tribe of artists, artisans, architects, writers, photographers, yogis and children of forest gathered in the ancient lands of Vytautas V Landsbergis to perform architectural rituals connecting the modern man with nature. 

© Lidija Kaleninikovaite

Sketch

© Gabriele Stravinskaite

Living in tents and teepees and eating from the nature, the tribe started to do a circular meditative movement to connect a handful of pine trees with natural linen rope. The result is insect architecture, a man-made semi-transparent cocoon swinging together with the trees. Architecture is the art of reality. There is no other reality than nature. 

© Juozas Masiulis