Superpausée Macro Tent

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous

SUPERPAUSÉE MACRO TENT

Vous Architecture & Design

CLIENTS
La Belle Folie

PHOTOGRAPHS
Collectif Vous

AREA
50 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Ploemel, France

CATAGORY
Installations & Structures

Text description provided by architect.

SuperPausée is a macro-tent, result of the superposition of two Canadian tents whose wooden structure have been replaced by steel tubes.

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous
Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous

It is an offbeat ode to camping, playing with its codes through its geometry, its apparent lightness, its minimal footprint, and its textile materiality. We spend a stay there in levitation, between starry sky and barely touched earth.

Camped in a clearing accessible on foot, the SuperPausée is assembled by force of arms, without lifting motors, like a traditional tent.

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous
Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous

Each of the pieces is handy, all of them are assembled on the ground to create the structure, which then rises by simply bringing the feet together like a folding camping stool.

Designed to accommodate five guests in the open-air hotel La Belle Folie, the SuperPausée offers two levels of suspended floors for a total area of 50 m². 

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous
Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous

Downstairs, the living room adjoins the covered terrace, which a removable textile allows to evolve into a winter garden according to the seasons, and to a technical unit grouping bathroom and WC.

Upstairs, a bedroom perched 4 meters above the ground opens generously onto the treetops, while opposite, a large outdoor trampoline allows you to enjoy the nights under the stars. The high and low spaces communicate by a suspended stairway leading to a stair landing under a flexible canopy, ideal to read and rest.

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous
Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous

Offering as many gables as there are cardinal points, the SuperPausée opens onto the surrounding forest landscape by four large triangular framings.

Placed on four specific supports, the project is built entirely in suspension, remaining the natural terrain intact. Beyond its relationship to the ground, the lightness of the project is also expressed in its cunning design:

Superpausée Macro Tent
© Collectif Vous
Superpausée Macro Tent

Its double textile envelope ensuring insulation and waterproofing, its handy-movable exo-structure, and its tensioning fittings. Finally, SuperPausée is resolutely a breton project, at the crossroads of camping and boating.


Superpausée Macro Tent
Plan
Superpausée Macro Tent
Plan


Superpausée Macro Tent
Section
Superpausée Macro Tent
Transversal section