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This tiny wooden cabin in Sweden contains a sauna and a bedroom with large picture windows that frame views of the surrounding forest (+ slideshow).
The cabin was designed by Paris studio SEPTEMBRE for a couple who spend their summers on the remote island of Trossö, off the west coast of Sweden.
It is situated in a clearing just 50 metres from the the North Sea and the architects told Dezeen that their brief was for “a room with a view of the sea,” that gives “the feeling of being immersed in the landscape”.
The clients also asked that the building “make minimal impact on the surounding nature [so] no trees should be cut down.”
The cabin is raised off the ground so it sits lightly on the plot and all of the materials used were transported to the site by boat as there are no roads on the island.
A pitched roof references the vernacular of local fishing huts and also increases the internal volume.
External walls are made from Swedish spruce that has been painted black. The floorboards are also spruce, while the internal walls and ceiling are clad in plywood.
A large sliding door leads from a small deck into the bedroom. With the door open, the deck effectively doubles the usable floor space.
In the bedroom, a mattress is placed at the back of a wooden platform that also acts as a surface for seating.
Long drawers on castors roll out from underneath the platform to provide storage.
The sauna is entered through a door at the side of the cabin and contains benches and a window looking out onto the forest.
Renzo Piano recently completed a tiny cabin designed as a self-sufficient hideaway for a single inhabitant at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, while other wooden cabins on Dezeen include an artists’ cabin built on the side of a hill in Nova Scotia and a wood-clad two-storey cabin in Austria.
We’ve published some unusual saunas on Dezeen, including one with wings like a bird and another that’s hung from a bridge – see more stories about saunas.
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Milan studio AtelierFORTE have built a sauna in the northern Italian countryside that has wings like a bird.
Inspired by the Norse myth of raven messengers Huginn and Muninn, the structure is also raised above the ground on wooden legs.
A ladder leads up to two people at a time inside the sauna, while portholes frame views out across the surrounding landscape.
Other saunas we’ve featured include one that can be towed like a sledge and one surrounded by a herb garden. See them both here.
Here’s some more information from AtelierFORTE:
AtelierFORTE is glad to present the sauna Huginn&Muninn, inspired by the two ravens of Odin. The sauna, built in fir wood, accommodates two people. As the Scandinavian tradition it is powered by a wood stove.
The portholes on the walls, in this case, give an impressive view of hills around Piacenza, Italy.
From the project by Duilio Forte, Huginn&Muninn is built entirely by hand. AtelierFORTE manufactures outdoor saunas since 1994, and every sauna is unique, designed and created ad hoc.
Hugin and Muninn mean “thought” and “memory”. Those are the names of the two ravens of Odin. Every day he sends them flying over all the earth, and they come back and tell him everything they have seen and heard.
In the freezing winter months this wooden sauna on a Finnish island can be towed like a sledge over a frozen lake to find the right spot for a plunge pool.
London architects Denizen Works + Friends designed the mobile sauna on site and constructed it in just nine days using locally sourced timber and recycled windows.
The wood lining the hut’s interior had been stored for over twelve years in a disused boatshed while the owner tried unsuccessfully to gain permission to convert that into a sauna.
She was granted permission for this structure on the premise that it would be mobile.
When on dry land, detachable concrete feet anchor the building to the ground.
We’ve also featured a glass bedroom by a lake on a Finnish island – see it here.
Photography is by Tiina Tervo.
Here’s some more text from architect Murray Kerr:
Denizen Sauna
The commission for the sauna came from a trip to Åland, in the archipelago between Sweden and Finland, during the summer of 2010.
In Åland, like most of Scandinavia, the sauna is one of the main social functions of the home. Our client had tried, unsuccessfully for 12 years, to obtain planning permission for a sauna within her disused boat-shed.
On leaving the island we set about coming up with a solution that could circumnavigate the planning issues. We decided on two possible solutions; one that put the sauna on a boat and the boat in the boat-shed and the other, a winter option, which put the sauna on a large-scale sledge and allowed the sauna to be towed onto the frozen waters surrounding the house during the winter months.
During the deliberations, our client’s son told the story of his grandfather building a winter sauna on runners for winter fun, so we erred on the side of family history.
The sauna was designed on site, using only sketches from a small notepad, and built by Denizen Works and friends during 9 hard days of toil in the summer of 2011.
The building is constructed from locally sourced timber, recycled windows and lined in the pine cladding our client had stored in her shed for the 12 years since the submission of her first planning application.
Practice Name: Denizen Works + Friends
Project Name: Denizen Sauna
Completion Date: July 2011
Contract Value: £3465.00
Project Address: Åland, Finland
A herb garden surrounds this glass-fronted spa in Santiago by Chilean studio LAND Arquitectos.
The single-storey building is named Spa Atrapa Árbol, which translates as Catch Tree Spa, because it wraps around a courtyard and tree.
A narrow skylight runs along the ceiling of a corridor connecting the sauna and hot tub rooms with a furnished living room.
The sauna is located on the glazed north side of the building and overlooks an outdoor terrace.
An exposed brick wall lines the rear of the building.
This isn’t the first building we’ve published that wraps around an existing tree – see our recent story about a house cranked around an oak tree.
Photography is by Sergio Pirrone.
Here’s some text in Spanish from LAND Arquitectos:
Spa Atrapa Árbol
Trabajamos el modelamiento del lugar en conjunto con el diseño del objeto arquitectónico, de manera de poder llevar el espacio exterior natural hacia el interior de la obra.
Este proyecto se genera desde el paisajismo, como un jardín aterrazado, se pliega desde el comienzo hacia el final del terreno, a través de jardineras escalonadas, escaleras y macetas, rematando en una maceta central, espacio donde existía un antiguo Damasco en el terreno, contenido entre los dos espacios principales del interior del proyecto.
El trabajo de la luz pretende lograr un espacio permeable entre exterior e interior que constate el paso del día, a través de lucarnas y piel vidriada a lo largo de casi la mitad del perímetro del proyecto.
El color del interior Blanco, y muebles en obra de espejo, aportan también reflejos y constatan sombras de la vegetación que rodea al proyecto.
Uno de los muros perimetrales de ladrillo, entra hacia el interior, a modo de conectarse visualmente con el exterior.
Espacialmente también se logra esto, en el espacio de estar, al poder abrirlo en dos de sus caras completamente.
Desde el programa, los dos espacios principales están separados físicamente, pero conectados visual y espacialmente, a través del patio central del Damasco. La lucarna principal atraviesa el proyecto aumentando la percepción del espacio exterior en el interior del proyecto.
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Estrategias sustentables pasivas aplicadas:
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Autores: LAND arquitectos (Cristóbal Valenzuela Haeussler + Angela Delorenzo Arancibia) Colaboradores: Juan Carlos Muños y Gonzalo Arteche
Ingeniero: Sanitario Hernán Morales
Paisajismo: LAND arquitectos
Calculo: Cargaz Ingeniería
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Arquitectura de Iluminación: LAND Arquitectos
Ingeniería Electricidad: TecHome
Construcción: Cúbica 3
Audio: Luis López
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Localización: Las Condes, Santiago,Chile
Superficie: 166 m²
Año del proyecto: 2010 Año
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