Le Bruit du Bois: 1,000 Timber Chimes Turn Alpine Pavilion into Playable Instrument at Festival des Cabanes

Key facts

• Le Bruit du Bois (The Sound of Wood) is a fifteen-square-meter timber pavilion in Faverges-Seythenex, French Alps.
• It was designed by Antoine Aunave, Flora Peyrot, Mathilde Steenhaut, and Luc Loviton, four ENSA Montpellier students.
• The project won the 2026 Festival des Cabanes competition, selected from close to 200 entries.
• The festival's eleventh edition placed fourteen temporary structures around the Sources du Lac d'Annecy.
• Nearly 1,000 suspended wooden chimes of varying lengths produce different tones across the structure.
• A four-centimeter timber batten profile repeats throughout, bending slightly as it rises and responding to wind.
• Visitors play the pavilion by running a wooden stick along the chimes, creating a progression of tones.
• The pavilion sits on an elevated walkway at Les Combes de Seythenex, with an asymmetrical frame extending farther on the north side.