Forests are often cherished for the peaceful, natural sounds they offer. Imagine how beautiful it would be if these sounds are heard louder! That is exactly what a few students did in a deep forest of Estonia. The giant timber megaphones that they built amplify the natural sounds of the Estonian Voru forest.
Created by the students of interior architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts, the three wooden structures or ‘ruup’, as they are called in the local language, are installed in the Pahni Nature Centre near the Latvian border.
The main purpose of these installations is to act as amplifiers of the natural sound of the forest, like the chirping of birds, resulting of leaves etc. but the megaphones are so huge that they also serve as lounging spots for travellers inside the forest. Each structure, conical in shape, has a diameter of three metres.