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Sauna Huginn & Muninn

Sauna Huginn & Muninn
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SAUNA HUGINN & MUNINN

Atelier Forte

ARCHITECTS
Atelier Forte

CATEGORY
Landscape Architecture, Healthcare Architecture, Sauna

AREA
25 m²

LOCATION
Piacenza, Italy

YEAR
2012

Text description provided by architect.

Designed by Duilio Forte, Huginn&Muninn is an entirely handmade outdoor sauna in spruce wood which accommodates two people.

According to the Scandinavian tradition, it is powered by a wood stove. Its wall portholes frame the sunsets on the Piacenza hills, and a warm light floods in the small space.

Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE
Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE

"Huginn and Muninn mean "thought" and "memory", according to AtelierFORTE. "Those are the names of the two ravens of Odin. Every day he sends them flying over all the earth, and they come back and tell him everything they have seen and heard.

There is an analogy with the sauna as a moment of reflection and relaxation at the end of a long day."

Atelier Forte manufactures outdoor saunas since 1994, and every sauna is unique, designed and created ad hoc.

Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE
Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE

The studio's work method starts with a sketch, a preliminary drawing that must convey "the soul" of the project. The construction work implies study of and compromises with materials.

"It's important the adherence with the emotional state of the initial design too," says Atelier Forte.

Sauna Huginn & Muninn
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Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE

Technical drawings are made during construction, in support of the assembly operations.

This process is synthesized in the Manifesto ArkiZoic, the artistic style drafted by Duilio Forte in 2009, taking as reference the laws of natural evolution and forms of animals and plants.

Sauna Huginn & Muninn
Courtesy of AtelierFORTE


Sauna Huginn & Muninn
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