iceland trekking cabins

Designboom Article

The Icelandic trekking cabins look not only become a temporary respite along your journey; but also strive to become a platform of contrast to view the contextual curiosities of Iceland.

By reinterpreting the traditional building style and heritage of Icelandic turf houses, these cabins transition this architectural typology to a new form that frames modern views of Iceland. The cabins reinforce this dichotomy by mimicking the situation that makes Iceland so breathtaking in the first place. By inhabiting the interstitial space between the extremities of a mountain, it replicates the Icelandic conditions.

This theory then carries through at all scales; material, programmatic, and contextual, and therefore becomes a physical representation of old to new.