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This tiny cabin shaped like the home icon features floor-to-ceiling facades for nature lovers!

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Tiny homes have taken the globe like a storm, cropping up in backyards and remote forests throughout recent years. The tiny home is the home built for whatever you might need– remote working, fitness or yoga space, a meditation room, or even just an outdoor playhouse for the kids. The Bunkie Co., a team of designers, craftsmen, furniture makers, have designed and built their own line of tiny homes, including one called Monarch, an eleven-foot tall single room cabin designed for anything between, eating, working, playing, and sleeping.

With the pandemic keeping us indoors for the majority of this past year, tiny homes have only surged in popularity, begging designers to bring their interpretations into the mix. Monarch from The Bunkie Co., measures at 12′-6″W x 8′-6”D x 11′-6″H, comes complete with a fully glazed, floor-to-ceiling front-facade and standing seam steel metal cladding all around for a generally thicker grade of steel compared to typical metal cladding.

While owners of Monarch have the choice of getting standard dual airflow vents installed onsite by the contractor, the rest of the tiny cabin comes outfitted with R22 insulated walls and floors, so Monarch could practically function as an escape from home on a year-round basis. Inside, Monarch can accommodate a small electric fireplace with heat control, as well as additional storage cabinets and table furniture like chairs and fold-out desks. UV coated maple veneer plywood panels line the walls of Monarch, providing a warm ambiance to complement the cabin’s soft white lighting.

To adapt to the changing seasons, owners can either get engineered hardwood flooring or luxury vinyl flooring installed as opposed to the maple veneer plywood panels. In addition to the conveniences of insulation and natural airflow, each unit comes with the option of installing a wall bed so work that turns into play could turn into sleep. Designed to become the space that’s unique to you and your needs, Monarch really is the tiny cabin designed for everything from eating and working to playing and sleeping.

Designer: The Bunkie Co.

The Monarch from The Bunkie Co. features a fully glazed, floor-to-ceiling front-facing facade to bring owners as close to nature as they can get.

The ideal size to fit into a backyard or pool deck, Monarch from The Bunkie Co. can be placed discreetly in remote locations for isolated work sessions or meditations.

Built to be transported, each unit is constructed offsite before getting placed in the owner’s preferred location.

Filling out a similar area tot hat of a backyard shed, the Monarch tiny home fits right into the average-sized backyard.

Inside, maple veneer plywood panels line the walls to embrace a warm interior.

Owners have the option of installing a murphy bed for the ultimate tiny home that can do it all.

Natural light coming in from the glass facades provide enough warmth and light to fill up the whole cabin.

Owners can decorate the inside of their cabin according to their needs and the cabin’s function.

Shades can also be installed to keep the natural light from heating up the cabin too much during the warmer seasons.

This tiny cabin in the woods is shaped like a megaphone to amplify the forest sounds and bring you inner peace!

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Hooves walking over packed snow, flapping wings from above headed south for the winter, and wind rustling against leaves. The sounds of the forest are enough to help bring calm to anyone. With 2021 establishing its position as one of the more stressful years for many of us, a forest getaway sounds like the perfect escape. As a result, some of the most innovative tiny homes and cabins have come from the year we’ve spent in quarantine. While many of the year’s cabin designs leaned on floor-to-ceiling windows and more compact builds to bring guests closer to the beautiful sights in nature, somewhere in the dense forest of Zaube, Latvia, a tiny cabin, designed by Gianluca Santosuosso in collaboration with Matthias Kimmel, takes on a megaphone’s shape to bring the soothing sounds of the natural world a little bit closer.

Designed to function as a meditative space, Santosuosso’s Silence Amplifier works like a funnel for audio, similar to that of a megaphone. Silence Amplifier is a cone-shaped micro-hospitality cabin that collects the sounds of the surrounding forest through its large main opening and then amplifies them as they reach the cabin’s apex. The sloped tiny cabin works like a megaphone would so that guests can enjoy a sensuous and audiovisual experience in a natural environment without having to step out into the cold. Santosuosso and Kimmel designed the Silence Amplifier both to offer a place of respite for those of us who’d like to be one with nature and mediate from a distance and to create an architectural organism that blends with nature with a synergistic, collaborative angle.

The tiny cabin’s sloped roof rises with the surrounding trees and following it to its ground-level apex, Silence Amplifier merges with the forest’s floor, hardly disturbing the natural landscape of Latvia’s wood. In order to bring guests and Silence Amplifier closer to nature, Santosuosso designed the roof to allow native vegetation to grow on top of it. Silence Amplifier, constructed almost entirely from locally sourced timber, appears almost like a bear’s den in the middle of a snowy forest. Sustainable wood fiber insulation and a high-thermal-inertia firewood stove keep the cabin cozy. Silence Amplifier comes equipped with all the warmth needed for heating and cooking inside the cabin, so feel free to hibernate like a bear would and let the calming sounds of the forest rock you to sleep.

Designers: Gianluca Santosuosso x Matthias Kimmel

Similar to the way a megaphone works, Silence Amplifier collects the general outside noise through its larger base window and reverberates the sound waves as the cabin’s walls converge closer until meeting at its apex.

Designed primarily for meditation, Silence Amplifier offers a place of respite for guests to enjoy the sounds of silence that emanate from the forest.

“Instead of simply creating a building, we are proposing to create an architectural organism that is able to collect the silence of the forest, channel it and provide it to the person in the cabin in an amplified and customizable manner,” says Santosuosso.

This cabin is elevated by a single pillar above Finland’s dense forest for an immersive winter getaway!

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Dedicated to providing eco-friendly micro-hospitality solutions in far-reaching destinations, Studio Puisto is at it again. Following the success of their tiny, modular cabin design, ‘Space of Mind’, Studio Puisto, a sustainable interior design studio based in Finland, recently debuted the first prototype of cabins soon to be part of a larger hospitality project called Kivijärvi Resort. Once completed, the resort, situated near Salamajärvi National Park, will comprise of 25 cabins that vary in both design and structure to adhere to the ever-changing landscape of Finland’s dense, snow-covered forest, offering accommodations for guests looking for an elevated, yet immersive getaway in nature.

The resort’s first completed cabin is called Niliaitta, which refers to the traditional storage structure built at the end of a high pillar, used by the Sámi people to store food and equipment, keeping it safe from the grasp of hungry or curious wildlife. In order to immerse guests of Kivijärvi Resort in the elements of nature as safely, but also as close as possible, Studio Puisto installed a floor-to-ceiling window that stands some distance from the cabin’s deep gable roof. From Niliaitta’s front-facing window, guests enjoy the most dominant landscapes as the cabin’s location was purposefully selected to offer the most unobstructed views of Finland’s forest and nearby body of water. The cabin itself is painted twilight black to disappear into the darkness come night, but the warm, wooden panels that line Niliaitta’s interiors provide a cozy refuge that glows with relaxed, ambient lighting.

Maintaining the forest’s original terrain was a top priority for the architects at Studio Puisto, which meant that Niliaitta’s location was strategically decided upon based on whichever location required the least number of trees to be cut down. Since the whole structure rests only on a single pillar, there was only minimal contact with the natural environment and landscape during construction – the final structure requiring the removal of only a few trees. When sourcing their material for construction, Studio Puisto avoided plastic, opting instead for wood to build the cabin’s frame, walls, roof, and base. In a similar pursuit of sustainability, Niliaitta was insulated using eco-wool, a natural type of thermal insulation that traps air in millions of tiny air pockets found in the insulator’s fibers.

With both hospitality and sustainability at the forefront of these designers’ plans for Kivijärvi Resort, Niliaitta currently offers all the luxuries found in high-end hotel experiences including, a ventilation unit, air-source heat pump, water heater, and electrical switchboard. Then, a bathroom, spacious shower, as well as a kitchenette can all be found in the rotating core in the middle of the cabin in addition to the more mechanical luxuries mentioned above. Water, sewer, and electrical lines run to Niliaitta under the cabin’s external staircase. Offering guests with these conveniences of daily life was just as important to Studio Puisto as was the cabin’s elevated immersive nature, “The idea is that by simply retreating away up in the air, we feel immediately detached from our everyday worries happening on the ground.”

Designer: Studio Puisto

This entirely self-contained + portable prefabricated cabin uses green energy storage system to be an eco-cabin!

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The tiny home movement of today has garnered a lot of attention for many reasons, but most seem to form out of the environmental benefits that come with living in a tiny home. It’s true that downsizing to a tiny home will in turn downsize your own carbon footprint, but some tiny homes take it another step further. The Majamaja Wuorio, built by Pekka Littow of Littow Architectes, is described as an ‘eco-cabin’ for its use of green energy storage and a closed-circuit wastewater treatment system.

Pekka Littow’s Majamaja concept was born from life on Finland’s archipelago and essentially speaks to a building tradition that prioritizes harmony between humans and nature. Majamaja Wuorio units are prefabricated, transportable, and by making use of off-grid technologies such as solar panels and a recirculating water treatment system, the units can be situated anywhere. The tiny cabin’s closed-loop water treatment system collects both rainwater and air humidity in order to store it, then send it to the integrated water purification system for residents to use in the shower, kitchen, or bathroom. Waste from dry toilets is also composted and reused as fertilizer. The water purification system is powered by solar panels and a fuel cell, which also provides green energy storage for additional household appliances such as stovetops, air conditioners, and light fixtures. The Majamaja Wuorio Eco-Cabin stands as a pilot design cabin and part of a larger off-grid village currently in development. Beginning in 2021, Littow Architectes has plans to open Majamaja eco-cabins up to short term rental periods, so that guests can experience the simple joys that come with living simply in a tiny home on the coast of Finland’s southern capital, Helsinki. Since Littow’s tiny homes are transportable, potential environmental damage during pre-construction periods is entirely avoided. Opting instead for easy assembly and disassembly, Majamaja as a concept commits to “sustainable spatial planning projects with light infrastructure,” as described by Littow.

In constructing self-contained, tiny homes for Finland’s coast, Littow aimed to build Majamaja Wuorio as an example for future housing solutions. Each unit is built from prefabricated wood elements without the need for heavy-duty tools or too much elbow grease. Each unit’s lightweight infrastructure and easy assembly give way to installation possibilities in even the most remotes areas – all that’s needed is a helicopter, or dingy to hop between islands on the archipelago.

Designer: Littow Architectes

These triangular tiny homes with glazed, sweeping windows pay homage to the Iceland’s viking history

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In 868, Floke Vilgerdsson went sailing from Norway to find what we presently call Iceland, along with his grandfather, three daughters, mother, and wife. Today, in honor of Vilgerdsson’s expedition, a trail of five timber cabins called Flokehyttene, designed by Holon Arkitektur, punctuate Norway’s coastline, offering panoramic views of the gusty North Sea and the 19th-century Ryvarden lighthouse.

Careful not to disrupt the landscape of Sveio, the five cabins were gently integrated into the rocky, seaside mass of land by drilling four holes for all the corners of each cabin where steel columns anchor the structures in place, providing guests with an up, close, and personal experience with the changing waters of North Sea. Four of the five cabins offer accommodations for five guests and the larger fifth cabin, named after Floke’s grandfather, Horda-Kåre, can sleep up to ten people and is also wheelchair accessible. The other four cabins are named after his mother Vilgjerd, daughters Geirhild and Tjogerd, and Faxe who joined Floke on his journey to the island. The sweeping, glass windows practically kiss the North Sea and make the cabins feel endlessly spacious. Inside the cabins, guests can expect plenty of sleeping arrangements, including beds in the upstairs bedroom and loft, a sofa downstairs, and cushioned benches just beneath the angled windows. In addition to all of the different sleeping arrangements, guests can enjoy getting toasty by the fireplace alongside the sea’s breeze and open water. Each cabin is also outfitted with a toilet and full-sized kitchen for visitors to enjoy and utilize at their convenience, all you’ll need are your favorite dishes to cook.

Each cabin dons a triangular shape, which provides them with the strength and flat cut to endure sharp winds and intense climate changes that are somewhat usual for the Western Norwegian coast. The shape also adds a sense of mystery to the design – from the front, only a narrow exterior can be seen which belies itself in size once you step inside it. It’s an architectural design that would almost seem like magic! Commissioned by Haugesund Tourist Association, the designers at Holon Arkitektur were able to design and construct these windswept, unwavering cabins in honor of the Vikings from time past and Norway’s long history of endurance and natural beauty.

Designer: Holon Arkitektur