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A private lookout tower near Whitefish, Montana.

A handsome folk cabin in an undisclosed forest in Poland.

This isn’t a cabin, but it appeals to us. The truth is we retreat to place in the woods, but spend most of our time in a small home in a city with a garden we tend. So we’re fond of any effort to bring nature to society, to bring folk design patterns and sustainable methods and mesh them with density to create more livable, more human urban cores. There’s a lot of this good stuff going on with this project in the North of Amsterdam. 

An old and decayed brick house has been replaced by a completely new and sustainable house with wax-covered pine cladding on the walls and roof. The old house has not vanished completely. Roof tiles and wooden floors have been re-used in the garden and the inner brick layer of the old house has been used again to create new interiors. 

This 645-square-foot dwelling and its compact garden demonstrate that it’s not necessary to have plenty of room for a satisfying home, just enough of the good things in the right proportions.

From Toni Goltz, the designer and builder of @luomukoti – a tiny home project in Finland that offers inspiring prospectives on materiality and shapes for any room, on wheels or not.

“My house gives me a freedom of living, the atmosphere of location-free work. It offers time freed up due to its minimal cost of living and independence through self-sufficiency.  It is completely free of adhesives and other chemicals, plastics, and unnatural materials.  The material is Finnish pine, spruce, aspen, and the insulation is Finnish hemp.

The design of the house began with an interest in circular shapes and cornerlessness - a continuous form.  The shape selection was also guided by the aerodynamics of transporting the house.

The Julian Harrison Hut is a gothic A-frame located 50km from Pemberton, British Columbia at an elevation of 1,725 m (5,659 ft). The Hut rests in a subalpine meadow at the northernmost part of the Pemberton Icefield in the headwaters of Barr (a.k.a. Madhorse) Creek. The Hut is maintained by the Varsity Outdoor Club.

Yesterday’s post of the gothic A-frame in British Columbia inspired a submission from Garvan de Bruir, a leather craftsman who built his own workshop with a similar silhouette.

He is also building a house in Kildare, Ireland using the same style. It’s prefabricated with OSB and plywood, clad in cedar and roofed with corrugated iron. If it might be of future interest I can send on some proper images as it nears completion.

This 36 square meter cabin is located on a small cliff overlooking Lonconao lake, approximately fifteen kilometers from Futaleufú, Chile. 

Grand Cabin Club by Hello Wood near Csóromfölde, Hungary

Built next to six other installations during an independent international summer school in 2018. Organized by Hello Wood, a Budapest-based design studio and educational platform for architects. Students and architectures from all over the world were invited to collaborate and take part in the tiny house movement set in the depths of rural Hungary. The groups had to build movable, live-able, unique wooden cabins blending innovative design with environment-friendly approaches.

More from Hello Wood / @hellowood: 

As a pilot for our #GrandCabin project we built this tiny house back in 2018 during our international summer school, Cabin Fever. Drilling in the last screw was an amazing feeling, can’t describe how proud we were of our team and everyone who contributed to this beautiful A-frame house. Swipe to see the interior as well, full of Hungarian designer furniture and accessories.

After rethinking, revisiting this project in the past year we are glad to say that we can bring this cabin to anyone’s home/backyard/pier/*name a place* and build it up there.

Photos: @tamas_bujnovszky

Riverside hideaway in Myllykoski, Finland.

Those carribian like colors far north the arctic circle in Norway | juliankammel

“Position occupied by the sword blade in the body.” Magic, stage illusions and scientific diversions. 1897.