Nestled near a stream deep in Sweden’s Glaskogen nature reserve, this reptilian looking structure, originally transformed from an 18th-centuruy fisherman’s cottage, was reconstructed for use as the summer getaway of Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser, both principle architects of design firm 24H Architecture. Its compact size and modern furnishings, combined with indigenous features, like walls draped with reindeer skin and silver birch, make it the perfect place to kick off your boots around a wood stove after a long day of fishing.
Because of the area’s laws, which prohibits the expansion of residential properties beyond 30 square meters, Lammers and Zeisser were forced to think outside the box (as it were), and added an extension to the property mounted on a rolling steel frame. Now whenever they want a little extra space, they can stretch out the neck of their little dinosaur cabin, gaining a few extra feet without breaking the law.
To read more about Lammers and Zeisser’s accordion cabin, read their feature in The Guardian.
Images: James Silverman
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It looks like something from a science fiction film (I like science fiction).
It seems like it was moved from a Tim Burton movie. I love it.
Is that a woodfired hottub outside? This is rad.
I love how the house looks in the natural environment, and I like the undulations of the external and internal surfaces, but the fur room weirds me out. I am not antifur by any means, but the sheer amount bothers me for some reason.
I can barely wrap my mind around this. So super cool.
The first cabin is very similar to how I imagined Bilbo Baggins' cottage when reading The Hobbit!
Love the outside, but the inside seems to be lacking something.
Nice inspiration... now would I start feeling like a hobbit if I lived there???
Kosmic, I think its lacking comfy chairs. Take out the red pole chairs and put in a couple of wegner's papa bear chairs... yessss!
I'm not sure what's "versatile" about a tiny space where one entire room is occupied by two chairs that are permanently mounted to the floor, preventing even the option to pull up closer or back away from the fire to get comfortable. The accordion feature is a smart way to address the legal limitations of the site, but the interior is unnerving and seems to lack any of the flexible, multifunctional use of space that is important for liveability in a place this small.
Why would you put a giant table in that space underneath an undulation of the wall, so that only part of the table can be used? Also, that fur room is creepy and I am sure smells like...well, like a skin.
Overall very interesting though.
I am glad I read the comments so I did not have to see the fur room..the fist picture looks like an owl.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs.
I blogged about an amazing cabin I saw over the weekend. Think you'll really dig it. Check it out on www.jlatter.com
The pictures don't reflect the accordion functionality at all. Seems like an architect's wet dream s exactly what it is), but lacking in real fuctionality and comfort.
"principle architects"
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PRINCIPAL, please. Unless they are architects of principle, which they might be.
Anyway, I liked this a lot better from the outside than the inside.
it's like the jetsons meet the flintstones and then turned upside down by harry potter!
that wall to wall pelt room is freaking me out a little. like its alive or something. other than that though, what an odd and unique place. it can only work out there in those deep spooky woods.
the outside is so amazing, and the inside is so... not
holy cow, that place is freakin' awesome