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Dr. Seuss Tower: Get a Look Inside Precariously Stacked Cabins

08 Apr

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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The mysterious eight-story stacked cabin house spotted among the trees in a remote area of Alaska is even cooler than previously thought, now that filmmakers have caught up to creator and self-described “frustrated architect” Phillip Weidner. In a two-minute documentary by Great Big Story called ‘We’re Not in Whoville Anymore,’ Weidner calls his Frankenstein creation ‘Goose Creek Tower,’ and reveals his motivation for building it, along with a few of its most notable features.

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“I like building. I just designed it out of my head, we didn’t have blueprints. We drew it out on cardboard, plywood, just as we were going. I started to build a 40 by 40 scribed log cabin, and I realized I could put pillars on top and put another house on top of the house. And I just kept going. We got to 185 feet and we stopped because two hundred feet is federal airspace.”

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Previously, we got a look at the outside of the structure overlooking Mount McKinley and the Denali National Park via Alaska Aerial Footage, which captured a dizzying video of its full height against the snowy landscape.

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The tower remains pretty bare-bones, with all of the framing complete but no windows or finished surfaces. There are even more levels than you can see from the outside, as the interior winds from one split-level platform to the next. Weiner, a former attorney, reveals that a hidden escape tunnel at the basement level leads to a safe room.

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“I wanted to be able to see,” says Weidner. “And that’s the reason I went up. You could see for at least three hundred miles. And of course when the northern lights are out, you can really see ‘em. I hope that Goose Creek Tower will inspire other people to do worthwhile things, not just in building but whatever they do with their life. And every time I go up there, it’s a different experience. It kind of gives you a sense of the enormity of the universe.”

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Mobile Cabins: Go Off Grid in These 12 Rustic Modern Designs

03 Mar

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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Load up a prefab cabin on a truck and drop it virtually anywhere you want to be. Rustic lodgings in remote locations aren’t what they used to be now that modern mobile housing is available in so many forms and price ranges, from tiny houses on wheels costing just $ 11,000 to ultra-narrow habitable garden sheds to cabins shaped like actual logs to take the typology to its extreme.

Escape Vista

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The Escape Vista is a 160-square-foot, cedar and cortex steel cabin on wheels that can be towed to the location of your choice to take advantage of its many large windows offering views of your surroundings. There’s room for one or two, and despite its small size, you’ll have a bed, kitchen, dining or work table, lounge area and bathroom. The open interior is finished with aspen wood, and luxury features include solid butcher block tops, designer faucets, integrated solar power, a washer/dryer combo and a pop-up flatscreen television. It starts at $ 39,900.

Pircher Oberland

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Hangar Design Group created this prefabricated, mobile metal-clad cabin for Picher Overland to blend into rocky mountain environments. Vertical wooden siding on either end mimics tree trunks, and the interior is lined in natural wood flooring and synthetic stone-toned tiles.

Flake House by Olgga Architects

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This nomadic dwelling by Olgga Architects is like a modern take on the log cabin, camouflaged on the outside by fully-round timber siding. It stands on the site of Frossay in France, open to anybody who needs a simple shelter overnight. The proposal is “based on the concept of the ‘foil’, where the wooden structure is broken in two halves establishing a radical spatial boundary while materializing an unexpected entry sequence. an object, recalling a broken branch, whose unconventional scale is the main idea of the project: to be built-up, taken down, moved, pt down, left behind or taken along, inhabited or left to its surrounding.”

The Wedge: Luxury Rolling Cabin

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This 400-square-foot luxury turnkey cabin by Wheelhaus features a spacious bedroom with a king-sized bed, standard-sized bathroom, fireplace, large windows, high ceilings and a private deck. Base prices start at $ 89,500.

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Cabins in the Canopy: 13 Modern Tree Houses by Baumraum

24 Jul

[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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Ranging from minimalist elevated meditation cabins to complex climate-controlled company meeting spaces, the many treehouse creations of German company Baumraum offer unconventional and often strikingly modern silhouettes in natural settings. Custom-designed and costing anywhere from $ 25,000 to nearly $ 200,000, these treehouses and treehouse hotels are places for adventure and retreat amongst the foliage.

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Stairs ascend through a hole in the roof of a garage on a German property, spiraling around an oak tree to reach the Treehouse Halle. Baumraum set this zinc and wood structure 11 meters above the ground as a sleeping and relaxation space, supported by two steel stilts anchored to the lower part of the tree. A double-sized bed peeks out a large window onto the surrounding landscape.

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A lucky scout group in Wolfsburg, Germany gets to meet at this elevated clubhouse constructed around a pine tree, with two almost-identical wooden volumes set at staggered heights within the forest canopy. The Almke Treehouse provides a place to gather, eat and sleep, with the lower volume full of bunk beds for eight.

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An elliptical volume with egg-like sides seems to float above a wooded family property in Northern Germany, supported on a series of four stilts around two are oak trees. Sleeping benches covered in gray felt offer a comfortable perch from which to look out onto the trees.

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Treehouse Solling hovers above a pond like something out of a fairytale, an unusual two-story structure with a rounded roof punctured by a skylight. The treehouse serves as a sleeping place and observation point connected to a nearby forester’s cabin via a cable-suspended bridge. Like most of Baumraum’s structures, the outside is covered in zinc plating and the inside is lined with timber.

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This treehouse was envisioned as the perfect place for a paper company to brainstorm about sustainability among nature. Located in a forest in Belgium, the climate-controlled space is a lot more like a conventional building than most treehouses, containing a kitchen, lounge and restroom as well as a ventilation system and motion-sensor LED lights. It offers all the comforts of a meeting space within an office, but in an environment that’s a lot more conducive to creative thinking.

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Animal House: Woodland Creatures Adopt Deserted Cabins

29 Aug

[ By WebUrbanist in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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These interior photos by Kai Fagerström depict wild forest inhabitants who have made derelict human-owned dwellings their own – domestic portraits-at-home with a undomesticated twist.

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An abandoned series of small shacks and quaint cottages in Finland, slowly reclaimed by nature, show hints of slowly-invading of plant life, but the even faster introduction of woodland animals including squirrels, foxes, owls and more.

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This surprising variety of crafty creatures have adopted and reshaped the existing spaces to suit their own needs, tunneling through vents and fireplaces, nesting and resting between walls and below floors.

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Though this photography project started with a few quick shots in a set of cabins in the woods near the photographer’s summer home, the deserted spaces have turned out to be so rich in potential wildlife portraits that the results now populate an entire book of images (The House in the Woods).

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Great patience is required to wait and take just the right desired shots, which are so well-composed you could almost imagine the animals posed to have their picture taken. “Deserted buildings are so full of contradictions [and] I am fascinated by the way nature reclaims spaces that were, essentially, only ever on loan to humans.”

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Each image has a story, often elaborate, about how it was taken. About the last one above, for instance, from National Geographic: “On a summer night a family of badgers file into the kitchen from a tunnel they dug under the fireplace. It took four years before Fagerström finally caught the skittish, nocturnal weasels. For this shot he set his camera on a windowsill, then stood outside on a ladder for hours before pressing the shutter via remote control.”

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Bunyan’s Pride: 19 Log Cabins That Stack Above The Rest

14 Dec

[ By Marc in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

The typical rectangular cabin plopped in the middle of the woods is no longer the standard, as homeowners get increasingly creative with rustic housing, the designs are becoming larger than life.

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Cabin GJ-9 is a slick prototype created by Gudmundur Jonsson Arkitektkontor, a Norway based firm. Finne architects adds a twist to the typical cabin with this house that takes full advantage of the privacy afforded by dense woods, by having walls made of glass. Danish Dorte Mandrup created this 10 square room that is more an outside reading nook than anything else. Olson Kundig architects created this gorgeous, and huge, “cabin” that is about as far from the typical log design as one can get. Any fan of the Lord of the Rings, and Hobbits in general, will get a kick of this rounded doorway, that makes this cabin feel like a hidden hideaway.

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AATA Architecture created the Morevara cabin, a modern twist on an old classic. This second cabin utilizes a unique layout that allowed them to keep a trunk of a tree emerging through their kitchen counter, truly adding to the natural aesthetic. Chalet Cyanella is located in the French Alps and gives a glimpse of a modern interior that contrasts sharply with the natural panorama outside. Lastly, we have a house in Seattle that literally escapes to the treetops to separate itself from urban sprawl.

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WRB in Sweden created the top cabin, which actually has a gorgeous seaside view. The clean lines make it look more like an artistic statement than a vacation home. Piet Ein Heek created this log box room, which can shutter itself up and look like a pile of sticks. More images are available here. Studio Aisslinger created this Berlin cabin that looks caged, yet open, and has an incredibly distinctive design. OLGGA came up with this portable log cabin, which looks rustic on 3 sides, and hides a sleek, modern interior.

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Log cabins don’t have to be small huts in the woods. This giant edifice is one of the most epic cabin examples, as it looks more like an ancient Viking hall than anything else. A grand fireplace with hewn logs supporting the interior structure lend a rustic atmosphere to the interior. The third example shows a more modern, yet equally large, take on the fireplace, with seating for at least a dozen around the fire. The bottom example is more like a log mansion, yet still manages to integrate aesthetically with the nature around it. Another example of a grand entrance, is followed by an interior example of a possible lobby for homes like this. Large logs, leather, stone, and fire all combine to make any log cabin feel traditional, regardless of the size.

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Dr. Seuss Tower: Get a Look Inside Precariously Stacked Cabins