A Tiny Timber Cabin Touches Down on a Private Island in Norway
Seeking to “build smaller, build smarter,” Line Solgaard Arkitekter perches a pint-size getaway on stilts above the rocky shore.
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The best cabins create a dialogue with the landscape by sensitively responding to the site and integrating the view. On a small, private island in Norway’s Kjerringholmen archipelago, Line Solgaard Arkitekter built a modest summerhouse for a young family that epitomizes this approach. Perched on slender steel stilts above the rocky shoreline, it celebrates the site while blending in with the landscape.
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Mandi Keighran
Design and travel writer based in London.
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