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Festival des Cabanes
of the Villa Médici 2022
25.05 - 02.10.2022
Since its creation in 2022, Villa Medici’s Festival des Cabanes has transformed the historic gardens of the Académie de France in Rome into a laboratory for experimentation and architectural practice.
The first edition took place from May 25 to October 2, 2022, with 4 pavilions set up in the gardens for visitors to explore.
The Festival invites architects, artists and researchers to take over the historic gardens of Villa Medici, whose remarkable tree heritage was designed by Ferdinand de' Medici in the late 16th century. Ephemeral installations, micro-architectures, pavilions: four original cabane creations take up residence in the gardens of Villa Medici all summer long.
The 4 pavilions were specially designed for the Festival des Cabanes de la Villa Médicis by the French architectural firms DREAM, KOZ and WALD, and by a group of students from the Master in Political Arts (SPEAP) at Sciences Po and the “Place du vivant” Studio at theÉcole des Arts Décoratifs. Exhibited in the open air for five months, with visual scenography by the Italian architectural collective orizzontale, these lightweight structures made of wood, often from reused materials, offer the public a renewed experience of the Villa Medici’s eco-responsible gardens, and invite them to rethink the question of sustainable, modular living.
Saturday June 25, Nuit des Cabanes is a highlight of the summer season, with a program of artistic, musical and culinary performances featuring artists and thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds.
Pavillon ça joue! designed by agence DREAM
Sous le pin pavilion designed by the KOZ agency
ProtoCampo pavilion designed by the WALD agency
Pavillon Banquets des vestiges designed by students from SPEAP at Sciences Po and Studio Place du vivant at the École des Arts Décoratifs
Orizzontale, designers of the signage for Villa Medici's Festival des Cabanes.
Orizzontale is a collective of architects based in Rome, whose work ranges from architecture to landscape, from art to self-construction. Since 2010, orizzontale has been promoting relational public space projects that are both a testing ground for new forms of interaction between inhabitants and the urban commons, and an opportunity to test the limits of the architectural design process.
More about Orizzontale
Orizzontale has built and developed numerous projects in Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Greece, Ukraine, Portugal and the Netherlands. “8 ½”, the mobile theater built by orizzontale in 2014, is winner of the international Young Architects Program award (“YAP MAXXI 2O14”) presented by the MAXXI Museum and MoMA PS1. In 2016, orizzontale wins the competition for the regeneration of the Piazza della Comunità Europea in Aprilia (Lazio), organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian National Council of Architects. The project is awarded the Premio Urbanistica by theIstituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU) in 2020. At the 2018 Venice Biennale, orizzontale is awarded the Jeune Talent de l’Architecture Italienne prize for the best Italian studio under 35. In 2021, the collective is invited to participate in the Italian pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
The orizzontale collective is made up of : Jacopo Ammendola, Juan López Cano, Giuseppe Grant, Margherita Manfra, Nasrin Mohiti Asli, Roberto Pantaleoni and Stefano Ragazzo.
