Wooden Cabin in the Jizera Mountains
The newly built cabin on a sloping plot in the Jizera Mountains has the form of a traditional cottage. It is located on the very edge of the mountain village.
The newly built cabin on a sloping plot in the Jizera Mountains has the form of a traditional cottage. It is located on the very edge of the mountain village.
This gorgeous 23m² self-built cabin isn’t a tiny house in the sense of being a tiny pavilion form nor a bach but, rather, a camp-like dwelling that sits somewhere in between.
Rising on metal legs above a forested hill, the five-bedroom Peek-a-Boo Cabin faces a lake. A series of transitional spaces—exterior stairs, a deck, and an open breezeway—carve into and project out from the clean horizontal form
Perched above a glacial lake in southern British Columbia, Boundary Point Cabin is a gathering place for an extended family to reconnect each summer.
Our goal was to keep proportions, form and orientation in line with the surrounding buildings and still achieve a modern confident building that represents the regional construction methods.
Set in native forest on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the aesthetic concept of BIV Punakaiki Cabin was a reinterpretation of a historic gold miners hut. The cabin took cues from the exterior chimneys of these huts. Internally, the top skylight represents the top of the smokestack.
The tension between radical geometry and forest organic shapes shows the first architectural picture when you see this 3×3 retreat. Highlights house and landscape enhancing natural beauty.
Our client, an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist, came to us with a unique piece of land within a red spruce forest on a mountain ridge at 5,700 feet elevation. The dense evergreen forest and high elevation create a microclimate and habitat that supports rare species of flora and fauna.