A compact elevated shelter by Baquio Arquitectura has been installed on the slopes above Mindo, in Ecuador’s Chocó cloud forest. Dubbed Casa 6-3, the project is a tiny timber retreat with a lightweight footprint, overlooking the surrounding mountains and rainforest.
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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Cabins, Tiny Footprint, Building and Construction, Shelter, Home
Somewhere between the olive groves and vine rows of Zakynthos, a deep-red timber cabin sits quietly in the Greek countryside, and it’s one of the...
Most architects would have cleared the site and started fresh. Mimosa Architekti did the opposite. Perched on the banks of the Sázava River in Prosečnice,...
I must admit there is a certain freedom in stripping things back to exactly what you need and nothing more. That’s the quiet confidence behind...
A compact residential dwelling designed by Canadian architectural firm Nathalie Thibodeau Architecte has been completed in Boileau, Quebec. Dubbed La Maraude, the home is set within a wooded site near the Maskinongé River, and dissolves the boundaries between interior living zones and the outdoors. The project invites the forest indoors through its geometric layout, emphasizing light, openness,…
Perched upon a resilient stone foundation on the banks of the Sázava River, Mimosa Architects has realized a…
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The all-new Mohab Altus is a vehicle rooftop shelter series like nothing we've covered before. Using an electric-lift system, it rises into a boxy cabin that lives atop your vehicle. With four hard walls of solid weather protection and available heating and air conditioning, the Altus blurs the line between tent and RV, turning any pickup truck or 4x4 into a comfy camping rig with rock-solid…
Nestled within the dense woodland of Boileau, Canada, La Maraude by Nathalie Thibodeau architecte reinterprets traditional Quebecois forms…
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The reconstruction of a Swiss Alpine cabin in Ingenbohl, designed by Slovenian practice Guča architektúry, navigates the rigorous…
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Staggered Cabin by Mork-Ulnes Architects is a 1,400-square-foot residence in South Lake Tahoe that reinterprets the traditional alpine…
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Perched on the edge of the Zlatý Roh vineyards in Bratislava, Slovakia, Ark-Shelter and Archekta have realized Cabin…
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PLAT ASIA has completed a 1,634-square-meter (17,588-sq-ft) hotel in the Baiyinkulun Steppe of Inner Mongolia, China. Dubbed Volcano-In Hotel of Arrivals, the resort forms part of a wider development within an ancient volcanic field and seeks to combine high-end accommodation with land rehabilitation in a fragile ecosystem.
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Painstakingly constructed on an island in the Minnesotan wilderness, these traditional log cabins have an interior quite unlike anything else in the region
The concept of the forest retreat is undergoing a radical transformation, shifting from a mere aesthetic escape to…
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