b'green thumbsThetermfollybeganasapopularnameforanyWiththeprogrammesthatareavailablenow,below: Te Takitaki (2017) is finished in Resene Waterborne Woodsman tinted to Resene extravagantstructureconsideredtohaveshownarchitectural designers have the ability to render theirTotem Pole, a dark red-orange stain with accents in a Resene custom mixed orange stain. folly in the builder. Generally speaking, its a word forideas in three dimensions. But with the folly competition,The colour was chosen for its contrast to the surrounding bush and sky. Created by Sophie smallbuildingswithnopracticalpurpose.ItsEnglishtheyhavetotakethatideaandactuallybuilditEdwards, Jayne Kersten, Tom Dobinson and George Grieve. Interior landscape by Winston connotations of silliness or madness falls into accord withthemselves. The winners may have never hammered aDewhirst. Images by Sam Harnett.the general meaning of the French word folie; however,nail before, never mind picked up a skill saw, but they there is historical evidence that an earlier interpretationhave to be the ones to execute their design.of the word was delightand physical evidence of theBecause of what they can render on the computer, same is just a short drive north of Auckland. its common for participants to think they can cut things right down to the millimetre. And in the case of paint, A project for the unproven they forget that paint actually has thickness. It may seem When Richard and Christine Didsbury conceived thesmall, but if you have a lot of painted surfaces, it can add Brick Bay Folly Project, the couple was inspired byup to a lot of dimension. But going through the physical a similar concept regularly undertaken by Londonsprocess teaches the practicality of understanding the left and above: Resene White paint,Resene Serpentine Gallerybut with some key differences selected for topcoating the structural PEHalf Sail incriteria.Forstarters,thosecreatingfolliesfor and PVC pipe skeleton of Jonah (2018),Resene theSerpentineGalleryhaveaseeminglyunlimited expresses the bone-like appearance ofCarissma budgetandparticipantsarelimitedtohandpicked the structural pipes. The varying coloursResene stararchitectswhohaveneverdoneaprojectinResene Extrovert, Resene Minnelli,MinnelliResene Carissma, Resene Half Sail andEngland before.Resene Jadewere selected for theResene We thought it was a fun idea, says Richard, but translucent and almost apparitional steelExtrovert we turned it on its head and decided we wanted to mesh to express the deep sea origins ofResene showcase young, undiscovered architects instead. We the concept, the whimsical nature of aJade ideally wanted it to be those who havent had the chance folly and to blend in with the picturesqueto prove themselves yet so that we could give them a setting. Created by Kim Huynh, Kevinchance to do something fun and different, celebrate Ding Kun, Norman Wei and Cynthia Yuan. Images by Sam Hartnett,their creativity and put them on the radar screen.www.samhartnett.com. 2021 will be the seventh year that the competition has taken place, with each bringing about a uniquely beautiful and quirky installation plucked from the minds T hose who work on the front end of creating builtArchitecturalfolliesbegantoappearongreatof the winning architectural student team and coloured Sparking butformsareallfacedwiththesamechallenge:estates in the late 16th century and early 17th century,with paints and wood stains from Resene. The finishedabove: Leo Zhu, Dorien Viliamu, Daniel Fennell and ensuring that a structure fulfils a functional needbut they became far more commonplace in the 18th1:1scalestructuresmakethemselvesatemporary trying to do it in the most aesthetically pleasingand19thcenturies.Duringthattime,Englishandhome at the Didsburys 200-acre estate on the coast way possible. Unfortunately, when the budget beginsFrenchlandscapegardeningoftenfeaturedmockof Snells Beach, where visitors can experience them in to dwindle, its usually the latter part of that goal thatRomantemples,symbolisingclassicalvirtueswhilethe midst of an idyllic landscape of farmed pasture and native bush. Wenhan Ji created The Wood Pavilion (2019) stained with suffers. The longer youve been working in the industry,others resembled Asian temples, Egyptian pyramids,Resene Woodsman Bark wood oil stain. The team says An invitation to design for the sheerthe more you get used to sacrificing the details thatruinedmedievalcastlesorabbeystorepresentthat the choice of colour used on the raw wood was very fun of it has reinvigorated the delightwould have made your project even more special. differentcontinentsorhistoricaleras.Othertimes,The value of applied knowledge important, as was the decision to use stain rather than But what if the reverse were true, if it were thetheyrepresentedrusticvillages,millsandcottagesRichardsaysthatoneofthegreatestopportunitiespaint due to the penetrating quality of the stain, which in favouring form over function. function that was stripped away while the form was leftto symbolise rural virtues. But one thing they all hadthat the Brick Bay Folly Project offers is a chance forthey felt better retained the visual texture and grain of intact? It might sound like an impossible theory to applyin common is that they were far more grandiose thanarchitectural students to learn through the process ofthe timber. Image by Sam Harnett.to a building, but its something thats been happeningtypicalgardenstructures,andalthoughcostly,theydoing, as the winners are able to gain applied knowledgeResene WaterborneResene Waterborne for more than four hundred years. were purely decorative. they might not have learned otherwise. Woodsman Bark Woodsman Totem Pole56 blackwhitemag.com blackwhitemag.com 57'