CABINS / artpen : Calm Solitude

It is what we lack in modern society, the sense of world stood still, just for a moment… to be able to stop with our daily routine and look around. Take some time to digest the butty of nature around us to stimulate our creative instincts. This is how I would describe my project theme – “Calm Solitude”.

Based on my statement above I started to look for appropriate mood images of remote locations. These images gave me some initial thoughts regarding where the Cabin is going to be located and how it is going to look. From the beginning, I wanted to include water in my future scenery.

The actual Cabin design was inspired by strong silhouettes of sail yachts and mountains in Isle of Skye (Scotland). I wanted to create building form which will blend with the environment, but at the same time be a statement of its own.

As usual, I have stared with pen and paper, I feel like using my hands gives me a better understanding of proportions and rhythm of future building and composition.I have also prepared an initial physical model to test the silhouette of the building.

Next step will probably is going to be modelling the building. And setting up the composition.

CABINS / BarboraN : The Circle

I haven’t designed my cabin. I was looking for industrial theme cabin and I found it on old good SketchUp 3D warehouse. It perfectly fits into my concept. We all are in “The Circle” of something. We wake up, we work (most of us), we listen to all the bullshit, we eat and we go to sleep and we loose touch with nature. We thing that Nature is granted, it is not. We, as humans are slowly destroying it. My response to Cabin challenge should showcase the breathtaking and raw beauty of the nature,I hope ;-). We should take a moment and reconnect with her. Yes HER!!! However she can be a nasty b..ch, sometimes..

CABINS / baldjieva : The Snake Cabins

I was truly inspired by the Tree Snake Cabins, designed by the Portuguese architects Luís + Tiago Rebelo de Andrade. The photos on ArchDaily feature the cabins in the pine woods somewhere deep in the mainland. I decided to reposition them on a steep rocky slope going down to the ocean. The horizontal body of the cabin would form a nice contrast to the thin vertical pine trees. The floor plan organisation would basically remain the same, but I imagine the facade more minimalist and with diagonal wood cladding.

I was randomly googling “epic cliff” and “kitesurf beach”, when I found a photo of Cabo da Roca in Portugal and imagined a bright sunny day, the two cabins on the burning hot rocks and a view of a couple of kitesurfers enjoying the wind and the ocean.

Anyway it’s just some first thoughts.