Reading Cabin

With the Reading Cabin project, we wanted to create, using literature as a conduit, an unusual space conveying the love of nature, environmental awareness and the importance of getting away from the daily rush. The result is a site connecting the forest, art and man. It also provides an opportunity to create programmes that, in addition to the values mentioned above, promote reading and foster local cultural and scientific heritage.

This unusual space can be an inspiration and an advocate for reading to young people. The cabin also offers a wealth of educational opportunities. Environmental education is encouraged with themed shelves and specific programmes in or around the cabin. Research has shown that environmental awareness and protecting nature are increasingly important for young people. The forest reading cabin is, in fact, a combination of these two subjects, literature and ecological awareness. The programmes in the project complement and reinforce this spirit: they can also provide a popular place for those who want to get away from the daily rush.

The cabin, designed by students of the MOME Institute of Architecture (Liza Formanek and Imola Fazakas), was built under the guidance of Dániel Baló, a lecturer at MOME, in the park forest near Ajka-Csingervölgy, at a point where hiking trails converge.