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This is certainly the ultimate weekend retreat, located on a remote forested island and featuring ample space to relax

This fireplace is a cabin must-have architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, house, interior design, living room, gray, brown — This fireplace is a cabin must-have

This fireplace is a cabin must-have - This architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, house, interior design, living room, gray, brown

The front entrance is sheltered and adds privacy architecture, facade, home, house, real estate, siding, wood, black

A white soffit balances out the dark panels architecture, building, daylighting, facade, home, house, product design, black

The high ceilings are church-like and flood the architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, home, house, interior design, real estate, roof, wall, window, gray

Step up into the outdoor room before entering camping, canopy, grass, home, house, real estate, rural area, shack, shed, tarpaulin, tent, brown

The kitchen sits in a nook off to architecture, ceiling, chair, floor, flooring, furniture, house, interior design, loft, table, wall, orange, white

This bed sits up in a secluded alcove bed frame, bedroom, ceiling, door, furniture, interior design, room, window, wood, white, brown

The home is like a looking glass – architecture, cottage, home, house, hut, real estate, shack, shed, tent, brown

It's a private retreat – helped by the architecture, cottage, farmhouse, grass, home, house, landscape, log cabin, property, real estate, rural area, shack, shed, siding, tree, brown

At night, the elevated cabin lights up - architecture, cottage, home, house, hut, log cabin, real estate, shack, shed, tree, black

This spacious living area features high clerestory windows architecture, floor, furniture, house, interior design, real estate, wood, orange

Wood slats add an element of interest to architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, flooring, hardwood, interior design, lighting, lobby, lumber, structure, wall, wood, wood stain, orange, brown

Architect: Lazor OfficeAbout the project: Week’nder opens and closes, its façades shifting from dark and opaque to light and transparent as you walk around it.

The design and construction of this weekend getaway were driven by its island site: two prefabricated modules fit on trucks to come over by ferry, posts minimised foundation concrete, and bottle jacks eliminated the need for a crane. Containing the kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, laundry, and all of the infrastructure, these parallel modules set a datum line above which the gabled roof of a shared, site-built “dry space” rises like a tent.

Materials at hand — plywood, pine, and corrugated and smooth metal — lend the cabin a rustic feel balanced by a precise coordination of colours and textures. Nature drifts in along a gradual entry walkway punctuated with a screen of thin wood posts. A screen porch extends one module, offering a unique view into the woods. Floor-to-ceiling windows open the main living space to the cabin’s surroundings at either side.

An open plan unites the array of surface qualities that animate the exterior, clarifying their connection. Between the module walls and the cathedral ceiling, clerestory windows bring in light. A fireplace and counter rise up from the wood floor while the white-walled kitchen and sleeping bunks are carved from the plywood modules. Continuing out from the thickened bedroom walls, metal window fins are white inside so the bunks are filled with glowing light.

Story by: David Renwick

18 Jan, 2018

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