With the aim of making the forest the most important theme of the project, the cabin was thought as an elemental volume, which tries to keep the forest as intact as possible, preserving all the pre-existing trees, and even allowing them to grow through the wooden deck of the terraces. To avoid altering the ground too much, the house was built on pillars, to avoid very large earth movements.
The layout consists of a central common area, where a kitchen, a dining room and a living room with a fireplace are located in the center. The sense of openness of this space was achieved by performing three design operations. First, the roof ridge was placed in the center of the volume, giving the common areas the highest interior space. Second, the entire facade of this segment is glass, including above the sliding glass doors. Thirdly, a wooden deck was conceived across the width of the common space, to be able to go out from the interior on both sides to contemplate the views of the forest. Then, at the two ends of the wing are the bedrooms, on one side the master bedroom with its bathroom, and on the other side a large bedroom that can be divided in two by a sliding door, in case the family invites a guest.
Due to a limited budget, the house was very simple in its finishes. The exterior facade was clad with cypress in a natural tone, while the interior walls and roof were finished with the same plywood used as part of the structure of the walls. With the same logic of reducing costs, the floor was defined as polished concrete.