The great novelty of this second edition was that Feÿ asked architects to carry out projects presented in the castle and its forest. Their work created an immersive journey questioning the ways of living outdoors, the recycling of recycled materials and the common uses of space.
Imagined by Myriam Treiber and Jessica Angel, the programme brought together architects from the four corners of Europe, from Switzerland, but also from Germany, Italy and France. Among them, the Jurassian collective Condor ThinkTank arrived more than a week before the festival to decide on the location of their structure designed from a recycled factory floor. This was then taken over by "EEE", a collective made up of two architects (Estelle Balet and Elena Chiavi) and a textile designer (Estelle Bourdet), to build a patchwork blanket shelter from a giant loom. At the same time, another unusual project has begun in a forest clearing: fresh from Milan, architect Marc Leschelier is laying the foundations of his future pavilion, four lacy cinderblock walls with the tree canopy as a roof.

For this second edition, the architecture team, led by Jessica Angel and Myriam Treiber, welcomed many architects from all over Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and France. The work of the invited architects primarily tackled the question of recycling materials as well as subverting our standardized modes of living.

During the residency, the first to intervene in the park were the Jura collective Condor ThinkTank. Arriving a few days before the beginning of the residency, they discovered the final location of their structure, designed from a recycled factory floor. The EEE collective, made up of two architects (Estelle Balet and Elena Chiavi) and a textile designer (Estelle Bourdet), then installed a giant loom to weave colored blankets that were intertwined to form a shelter. It was also at the very beginning of September that another unusual project began in a clearing in the forest. Marc Leschelier, having recently arrived from Milan, installed the foundations of his future pavilion, four walls made of cinder block laced with the canopy of trees serving as a roof.

Condor ThinkTank ©Jeremy_Guillory

Estelle Balet × Elena Chiavi × Estelle Bourdet ©Romain_Darnaud

Marc Leschelier ©Romain_Darnaud

Not far from there, a second clearing hosts a gastronomic infrastructure designed by the Swiss offices RGB and TW. During the festival, it was here that festival-goers met the chefs to "eat the landscape" before losing themselves in the forest, to discover the "Peregrinus" wooden huts designed by students from all over Europe during the EASA festival, and the Pluvarium, a prototype of elementary and dreamlike showers by architects Victor Maréchal and Maria Fernanda Serna.

Not far from there, another clearing was animated by a gastronomic infrastructure designed by the Swiss offices RGB and TW. It was here that festival-goers met the chefs to "eat the landscape," and were surprised by the musical and poetic intervention of Nicki Fehr x Niki Blomberg. Also nestled in the forest were the wooden "Peregrinus" huts designed by students from all over Europe during the EASA festival as well as the "Pluvarium," a prototype of elementary and dreamlike showers by architects Victor Maréchal and Maria Fernanda Serna.

RGB ©Romain_Darnaud

Peregrinus ©Romain_Darnaud

Maria Fernanda Serna × Victor Maréchal ©Romain_Darnaud

In this same forest, the architects Emmanuelle Agustoni, Sergio Antonio Torres Escobar, Myriam Treiber, and Marija Urbaite drew on moss and tree trunks to transform one of the castle's interior rooms into a publishing house with surrealist overtones. Designed and conceived by Sina Momtaz and Toru Wada, the central bar took its place at the edge of the castle: entitled Atmospheric Saucer, it was the fruit of a collective construction, mobilizing volunteers as well as members of the "Thinking Garden", a residence of crazy philosophers who came to lend a hand to the Feÿ team.

It is in the corners of the living rooms that we will find the forest of the estate, a carpet of moss and branches collected and staged by the architects Emmanuelle Agustoni, Sergio Antonio Torres Escobar, Myriam Treiber, Marija Urbaite. This lead to the creation of an uncanny publishing house in the middle of the chateau. On the way back to the château, one could enjoy a glass of wine at the central bar, designed and designed by Sina Momtaz and Toru Wada. The "Atmospheric Saucer" was a collective construction work, mobilizing both volunteers and members of the "Thinking Garden" who came to lend a hand in the flight of the UFO crowning the zincs.

Emmanuelle Agustoni × Segio Antonio Torres Escobar × Myriam Treiber × Marija Urbaite ©Romain_Darnaud

Sina Momtaz × Toru Wada ©Sarkis_Torossian

Also perched above the clouds, the bathtub of the Repaire Fantastique! MAIA or "Machine Architecturale pour Intimité Augmentée", gave the spectators a moment of contemplation from the terrace overlooking the Yonne valley and the forest of truffle trees. It was the latter that they had to cross to reach the castle's underground passages, specially designed as a cinema by the New York office "Almost Studio".

The bathtub of the group "Repaire Fantastique" also flew away! MAIA, or "Architectural Machine for Enhanced Intimacy," an installation that one would expect to fly away, was parked on the terrace. The structure faces the Yonne valley, but once the building is well settled in its hollow, it is in the middle of the Amazonian forest that we find ourselves thanks to a photograph of Yann Gross. From there, we also saw the path leading to the tunnel, specially designed by the New York office Almost Studio to accommodate the screening of films selected by the cinema team.

Le Repaire Fantastique ©Romain_Darnaud

Almost Studio ©Romain_Darnaud

Finally, in the outbuildings, RadioPlot took its place, welcoming artists and actors from the region around a table designed for the occasion. The team left behind a beautiful collection of podcasts that will allow the most nostalgic to go back to this second edition of the Feÿ.
https://radioplot.com/

On the barn side, RadioPlot's animators welcomed artists and local actors around a table designed for the occasion. They left behind a beautiful collection of podcasts that will allow nostalgia-seekers to reimerse themselves in the second edition of the Feÿ. https://radioplot.com/

Radio Plot ©Feÿ

Our story ends at the start of the spectator's visit: a kiosk as a ticket office designed by Arimna and Julia Widmann. An enigmatic lighthouse with fabrics covering its scaffolded frame.

Our tour ends at the beginning of the spectator's promenade: the ticket kiosk imagined by Arimna and Julia Widmann. A subtle lighthouse made of scaffolding and fabrics.

Arimna x Julia Widmann ©Romain Darnaud