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  • Different shaped cabins placed along a mountain terrain

    Ten escapist hotels featuring luxury cabins nestled in the countryside

    A new wave of hotels is offering guests the chance to sleep in individual cabins set amid spectacular landscapes instead of in a traditional building with corridors. Here's our selection of 10 of the most interesting cabin hotels. More

    James Parkes | 4 February 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Exterior of Casa Eterea by Prashant Ashoka

    Casa Etérea is a mirrored off-grid cabin on the slopes of the Palo Huérfano volcano

    Solar panels and harvested rainwater power this mirrored holiday home by first-time architect Prashant Ashoka, which was designed to be self-sufficient and in harmony with its surroundings. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 24 January 2021 | Leave a comment
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    Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers creates cedar-clad cabin in the woods

    Vancouver studio Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers has clad a "contemporary cabin the woods" of British Columbia's Bowen Island in black-stained cedar. More

    Jane Englefield | 21 January 2021 | Leave a comment
  • La Invernada by GAAA

    Small La Invernada cabin glows in Chilean forest at night

    This house by Chilean studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has mesh and polycarbonate walls to reflect the shadows of trees in daytime and light up at night. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 17 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Majamaja off-grid cabin by Pekka Littow

    Majamaja is an off-grid seaside cabin near Helsinki

    Architect Pekka Littow has used Finnish spruce and birch plywood for off-grid holiday home Majamaja, which is perched on a rocky outcrop by the sea just outside of Helsinki. More

    India Block | 15 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Skigard Hytte by Mork-Ulnes Architects

    Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2020

    In a year when the coronavirus pandemic caused travel restrictions, cabins offered a welcome sense of escapism. As part of our review of 2020, here are Dezeen's top 10 cabins, including one made from infested wood and another with a titanium roof. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 6 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Moonshine by Piers Taylor

    Piers Taylor retrofits his own off-grid home "to banish the demons" of his youth

    Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor has carried out an extensive retrofit of Moonshine – his own off-grid home near Bath in southwest England. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 20 October 2020 | Leave a comment
  • The exterior of The Hut, an off-grid house by Midland Architecture

    Ten eco-friendly dwellings where residents live off the grid

    These 10 off-grid homes allow residents to live in more remote locations, or were designed by eco-minded designers to facilitate low-impact lifestyles. More

    Lizzie Crook | 12 September 2020 | Leave a comment
  • The Olive Houses in Mallorca designed by Mar Plus Ask

    The Olive Houses are off-grid retreats hidden in Mallorca's mountains

    Craggy boulders jut through walls in these off-grid guesthouses that architecture studio Mar Plus Ask has built in Mallorca, Spain, for creatives in need of a quiet escape. More

    Natasha Levy | 3 September 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Arkup 75 yacht villa by Waterstudio.NL

    Waterstudio.NL designs yacht villa that can be raised out of the water

    Dutch architecture studio Waterstudio.NL has created a solar-powered electric yacht-cum-villa with retractable stilts that allow it to be raised fully out of the water to become an off-grid home. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 18 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Heva by Atelier 6 Architecture

    A6A constructs charred-wood off-grid cabin in Ustaritz

    Bordeaux studio A6A has created Heva, a black Douglas fir-clad cabin designed for off-grid living, in Ustaritz, south-west France. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 6 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • House of the Big Arch in the bushveld nature reserve, South Africa, by Frankie Pappas

    Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest

    Architecture collective Frankie Pappas has hidden the 3.3-metres-wide House of the Big Arch within the Bushveld nature reserve in the north of South Africa. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 26 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Bruny Island Cabin by Maguire + Devin

    Maguire + Devin builds minimalist off-grid cabin retreat on Bruny Island

    Bruny Island Cabin is a wood-lined off-grid holiday home in Tasmania designed by architecture studio Maguire + Devin featuring only built-in furniture. More

    India Block | 24 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Ashen Cabin by Hannah

    Hannah clads off-grid Ashen Cabin in New York with infested wood

    US architecture studio Hannah has used 3D-printed concrete stilts to elevate this tiny off-grid cabin in Upstate New York, which has walls made from infested ash wood. More

    Kristine Klein | 12 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Boar Shoat by Imbue Design

    Imbue Design constructs off-grid residence Boar Shoat in Idaho

    Architecture firm Imbue Design has designed this low-lying off-grid residence on a desolate, grassy lot in Idaho for a family to "distance themselves from social stresses". More

    Kristine Klein | 30 April 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Dvele Self-Powered home

    Dvele creates prefabricated homes that generate and store their own energy

    California company Dvele has designed prefabricated, off-grid houses with solar panels that allow people to stop relying on "antiquated power grids". More

    Jenna McKnight | 26 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • ZeroCabin Chile

    ZeroCabin in Chile designed to operate off the grid

    A multidisciplinary team in Chile has designed a self-sufficient cabin that can be tailored to the local climate and topography, along with a client's specific needs. More

    Jenna McKnight | 29 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Dune House by Studio Vural

    Studio Vural imagines off-the-grid Dune House for Cape Cod

    Architecture practice Studio Vural has envisioned a seaside holiday dwelling that is carved into sand dunes and operates without relying on public utilities. More

    Jenna McKnight | 24 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • The Edifice by Marc Thorpe Design

    Edifice by Marc Thorpe is a black off-the-grid cabin in Upstate New York

    American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". More

    Jenna McKnight | 8 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • "At first I was enchanted by off-grid living," says Marcus Field. "But the hardships quickly became apparent"

    "At first I was enchanted by off-grid living. But the hardships quickly became apparent"

    Marcus Field spent six years in an off-grid home. With architecture's contribution to carbon emissions in the spotlight and children striking against climate change, he asks if climate activists are prepared for the sacrifices needed to live sustainably. More

    Marcus Field | 15 April 2019 | Leave a comment
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