To hear nature, they build wooden megaphones

A team of architecture students from the Estonian Academy of Arts has erected three giant wooden megaphones so that walkers and forest dwellers can better hear the sounds of nature. It is a place for lingering and quiet contemplation.

Relaxing in the heart of nature and simply listening to the forest.

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Author Valdur Mikita, who has written extensively on the subject, praises the project and says: «It is a place where you can listen and browse through nature’s audiobook – there has never been such a place in Estonia before.»

A unique spatial effect created by three megaphones

The megaphone installations include seating as well as shelters from the rain. Many people were involved in building the whole thing.

«The three megaphones are positioned at a good distance from one another and at a specific angle, so that sounds from all three directions converge at the centre and create a unique spatial effect,» explains project leader Hannes Praks.

People who are not fortunate enough to live in the Estonian forests have already been requesting recordings of the sounds, but the megaphones naturally offer far more when experienced in person. More on the topic of Environment and Nature Conservation.