Some architects take their time embedding themselves into the public conscience, while others burst onto the scene in the splash of a single project. For young Berlin practice Atelier Sunder-Plassmann, that project was Hof Ahmen, a 55m2 glass-walled holiday home on the “gentle landscape” of a working sheep farm in the brooding coastal grasslands of Schleswig-Holstein between the Baltic and North Seas. To accompany an exclusive editorial for Ignant, Founder Malte Sunder-Plassmann shares how a personal project realized in his “night hours” catapulted an architecture office into being.

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Surrounded by 28 acres of forest in rural Rhinebeck in upstate New York, Steven Holl Architects has designed a geometric cabin with voluminous spaces despite its tiny footprint. Titled ‘Ex of In House’, the cabin is a continuation of the research and development project Explorations of ‘IN’, an ongoing venture that questions the clichés of mainstream architectural language.

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The Hotel Bjornson, located in a secluded part of a forested region in the Low Tatras mountain range in central Slovakia, has had a contemporary addition to its original cottage-style accommodation, with a cluster of eleven contemporary wooden tree houses designed by specialist cabin architecture firm Ark Shelter.

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Belfast-based housing startup Koto specializes in sustainable prefab homes and cabins, with sophisticated micro-living spaces that feature angular geometric designs, contemporary interiors, and asymmetrical roofs.

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With its woodland setting nearby the Salamajärvi National Park in Finland, ‘Niliaitta’ is the black-painted cabin that architecture firm Studio Puisto designed; its small space has the facilities of a modern hotel room.

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Amidst a dense pine forest in the Chinese province of Jiangxi, architecture studio ZJJZ Atelier has designed ‘The Mushroom’, a 50 square meter retreat with a panoramic window offering views of the surrounding nature.

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Nestled amidst the dense and ancient forest of southern Chile’s mountainous ‘Los Rios’ region, ‘Refugio Impluvium’ by studio SAA Arquitectura + Territorio is a minimal and alluring wood-and-glass cabin designed with the utmost respect for the high ecological value of the site.

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French architect Nicolas Dahan has created an idealized forest experience with ‘Soulac Sur Mer Wooden House’, a wooden villa that rethinks the use of pine wood and brings the outside in.

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The Norwegian studio Arkitektvaerelset designed ‘Hytte Imingfjell’, a remote cabin situated on top of the mountainous area of Imingfjell, in the center of Norway.

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Not far from the arctic circle on an island in the Norwegian Archipelago is the ‘Vega Cottage’, a wooden cabin designed by Kolman Boye that draws its architectural character from the traditional boathouses of Norway.

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Set amongst the blue of the Norwegian Sea is Stokkøya; one of over 50,000 islands that pepper Norway’s coastline. Here, Kappland Arkitekter has designed a blackwood cabin that sits nestled into the folds of the hillside overlooking the water.

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In order to achieve a “homelier feel”, famed Danish studio, Norm Architects, was enlisted to design the interior of a 70-foot yacht called ‘Bella’.

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Together with prefabricated building company Minimod, Porto Alegre-based architecture studio MAPA has designed a black wood cabin that sits amidst the rainforest in southern Brazil.

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Surrounded by verdant forest on the shore of Lake Muskoka, Toronto-based firm AKB Architects has designed a two-level boathouse that spans both earth and water.

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On the Chilean coast, 3370 Studio has designed a three part guest house overlooking the South Pacific Ocean.

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