Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.

Now that’s not entirely what German designers Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser did - their intentions were indeed honest and honourable - but the end result is pretty much the same.

After six weeks of toiling in the Cambridgeshire countryside with a team of volunteers, the intrepid twosome have successfully created a two-storey building from bits and pieces donated by the locals that has cost them next to nothing.

source: wysingartscentre.org

The structure, which lies in the grounds of the Wysing Art Centre in Bourn, might have a bit of a patchwork aesthetic going on, but that’s all part of the appeal apparently.

And while Folke and Martin intend for their creation - christened Amphis - to be used as a gallery for local artists, a case of art imitating life has meant the exhibitor has now become the exhibited.

The whole project build has been captured on film to be displayed in the Wysing gallery.

Because who nowadays does anything if it can’t be accompanied by a Making Of… documentary?

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