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11 cabins in the woods
Eleven prefabricated cabins placed among old stone walls and trees on a remote, steep site in Janarde, Portugal.
A cabin clad in timber slats on the wooded hillside.
- Practice
- SUMMARY
- Year
- 2021
- Photographer
- Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
- Project area
- 512 m²
- Cabins
- 11, in four types from 28 m² to 58 m²
The project
The site in Janarde is rough and remote, so building with a traditional construction yard would have been difficult and very expensive. Prefabrication was the most efficient way to simplify construction.
The brief asked for tourist rooms spread across the land. SUMMARY proposed small houses instead, so that some could be lived in all year round and the complex would not stand empty out of season.
The eleven cabins, in four types from 28 m² to 58 m², use the studio's Gomos system, with all services gathered into one module in each house. They sit around the existing stone walls and trees, turned in different directions so they do not block one another's views of the forest and river.
A cabin with its timber slats lit among the trees.
A cabin raised above the slope with a timber screen.
The cabins lit at night across the hillside. · A living space with a large window towards the trees. · A bedroom and living area with concrete walls.
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG.
Detail of the timber slats on a cabin façade.
Concrete cabins beside a path through the site.
A cabin seen under a deep blue sky.
Credits
- Architecture
- SUMMARY
- Photographer
- Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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