Camille Sardet

Faire feu de tout bois
Heating is a major contributor to energy consumption, and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions is an important part of the resistance we need to adopt. If burnt properly, wood heating is environmentally friendly: the fuel is local and the carbon footprint is virtually zero. What’s more, the upkeep of trees (both urban and rural) produces a significant amount of waste that is not recycled.
The Faire feu de tout bois project is a way of turning this resource into fuel for domestic use that makes economic and ecological sense. A little-explored ephemeral object, compressed logs provide an opportunity to research and design fuel shapes that embody the technical challenges of heat production, low-emission combustion, storage and transport, as well as the visual challenges of designing the sensual spectacle of flame.
These logs are a solution for heating with wood from an unexploited resource with a low carbon footprint, which replaces the dance of flames that has disappeared from compressed logs.