Kynttilä by Ortraum Architects is a picket cabin set on Lake Saimaa in Finland, with a glazed, gabled finish that has views of the water.
Helsinki-based Ortraum Architects constructed Kynttilä, which interprets to “candle”, near the Russian border close to Savonlinna.
Kynttilä is fabricated from cross-laminated timber (CLT) and is clad with larch boards on the outside.
The 15-square-metre cabin sits the place the Nunnanniemi peninsula juts into the water, so to benefit from the lakeside views there’s floor-to-ceiling glazing at one finish.
The CLT is left uncovered on the inside and in addition types the built-in furnishings, akin to a mattress, which sits on the one glazed finish. A ladder leads as much as a bunk mattress above the door.
Each end of the cabin have eaves that overhang to offer a sheltered, raised platform for sitting on or storing boots outdoors. This part additionally protects a woodpile stored beneath the cabin.
“The house is strongly linked to nature, as the massive window creates direct and intimate contact and communication with the environment,” stated Ortraum Architects.
“Within the evening time, like a candle, Kynttilä shines as a heat gentle on the lakeshore.”
Kynttilä sits in an untouched forest, so the architects deliberate the development course of to be as low impression as potential.
The CLT elements have been prefabricated off-site, and a short lived street was constructed for sooner or later solely to herald the massive items on a truck and crane them in to be positioned together with the massive piece of glass.
Kynttilä acts as a visitor home and a meditation house on the grounds of a summer season home and sauna.
Ortraum Architects is a Finnish studio based by Martin Lukasczyk, whose earlier initiatives embrace a timber music studio for a house in Helsinki that was shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020, and a house in a forest with its own climbing wall.
Images is by Marc Goodwin.