Typical plan and typical vertical detail

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Site plan Landscape hotel, showing also the existing barn (restaurant and lobby) and the sauna building

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Two of the rooms, showing the entrances and access paths, made by adding gravel on top of the ground where possible routes can be placed without changing the topography

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One of the rooms, interior view out of the glass wall towards a part the nearby unchanged existing topography and vegetation (beech trees, moss, brushes etc.)

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View of one of the entrances, directly upwards, showing the entrance door and a window to the bathroom. The doors and windws were produced by local carpenters to fit with the geometry of the rooms

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The view from one of the rooms that are placed directly above the river. This picture is from February. The rooms can be used in winter but requires an oven to keep the correct temperature.

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Outside view of a glass wall and the room placed above th eexisting topography

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View of the entrance area of one of the rooms

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The site for the hotel is a nature reserve. After extensive negotiations with conservation authorities permission was granted for a plan allowing a maximum of 28 rooms to be built without the need for rock blasting or changing the terrain. Instead of a conventional hotel with guest rooms stacked together in one large building, the idea was to distribute the rooms throughout the site as small individual houses.

Every house has one or two walls that are built entirely in glass and through careful orientation each one has a unique view that changes with the season, the weather, and the time of day. The shelves, benches and a small table are all integrated as part of the structure and are built of the same massive wooden elements in order to maintain a certain degree of monotony, which serves as a contrast to the complex natural views, and minimalises the visual presence of the interior.