丨中国武汉

Architects:Advanced Architecture Lab,Wiki World

Area:60m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Arch-Exist

Manufacturers:Rothoblaas,ELLAI

Category:Cabins & Lodges

Design Team:Mu Wei, Feng Zhaoxian, Wu Baorong, He Wen, Xu Xiaodong, Liao Xiaotian, Wang Yuanying, Chen Liang

City:Wuhan

Country:China

Text description provided by the architects. Red Cabin is an experimental project of "Merryda Wiki World • Secret Camp", located within a metasequoia forest inhabited by migratory birds, where over a dozen treehouses are discreetly nestled. Client is a lady also a dancer, she hopes Wiki World can customise a holiday cabin in forest. This project is also part of the "Wiki Building School" co-building with nature initiative, representing another attempt by our team to explore the diversity of living spaces.

Live in forest - The site is a vibrant metasequoia forest, a habitat for many migratory birds. We imagine the wooden cabin as evolving from a red migratory bird. As always, Wiki World maintains the utmost respect for nature. The project preserved every tree on the site, positioned the cabin according to existing plants, and the treehouses are constructed using fully elevated prefabricated wooden structures. The ground remains unhardened and free from artificial landscaping, ensuring the original ecological state of the metasequoia forest is preserved to the greatest extent.

Off-grid in Red - If you wish, you may settle comfortably wherever your heart desires. It has always been the aspiration of Wiki World to explore the countless possibilities of wilderness homes. The imaginations of friends have gifted us with endless inspiration, allowing every friend returning to nature to discover their own story here. "Red Cabin" is the dancer of the forest, clad in pure, unadulterated red. The crimson space feels like a theater amidst the trees, with metasequoias and palm trees as performers swaying gracefully in the wind.

The Red Cabin achieves the owner's expectation of living alone, and the process of arriving is especially mysterious and difficult. The pure red wooden cabin will make you feel lost in a trance. Here you only hear the wind, birds and insects. At night you can chop wood and make fire by yourself. There is a warm fireplace in the room. You can walk barefoot indoors and outdoors. You may not want to leave, after all, leaving here is also a long journey back to the noise.

The entire building is constructed of laminated wood, and each irregular component and node is designed and customized through digital technology, achieving 100% full assembly construction.The client's identity as an artist led us to finally decide to understand this cabin as a pure exhibit in nature, a blue container made of wooden assembly. There is no standard answer to living, everyone hopes that their residence can convey their own understanding of life, perhaps in the eyes of the artist, the home in the wilderness is also part of her artistic vision. On the entrance side, the wooden house has only a round light and the light of the entrance door. Each room in the house has a window facing the forest.

Wiki World-Build Small, Dream Big - Wiki World has been committed to returning to natural life through natural construction. The cabin of Red Windmill continues such a natural wild house experiment, jumping out of the inertia of the size of the thinking, focusing on the relationship between living behaviour and environment, the answer of space must be far from the daily living experience, even a little paranoid. The cabin makes home supper narrow, 'Small' brings us closer to the material, so we are more sensitive. Now that we are in the forest, let's go barefoot for a day and listen to the sound of dead leaves being crushed on the terrace.

Build Naturally - The entire building adopts a glued timber structure, with each custom-shaped component and joint digitally designed and customized, achieving 100% prefabricated assembly. When it comes to living spaces, there is certainly no standard answer—everyone hopes their dwelling can reflect their own understanding of life, hence the concept of a "2-meter-wide home" was born. Wiki World continues its longstanding philosophy of natural construction. We preserved every tree and bamboo on the site, maintaining the original woodland and path textures. The houses are entirely elevated above the ground, and all structures are independently developed prefabricated timber systems, built collaboratively by the team and the users.

Natural buildings can be built like Lego. Little cabins, like building blocks, were placed in the forest. We stick to the original wild wood construction technique that we hand fired the façade of the carbonized wood boards. The cabins are all connected by small metal components that can be repeatedly assembled. We try to create a precise relationship between the cabins and the environment in the nature. Each wooden cabin is elevated above the ground, and no walls or artificial landscapes are used. Nature is the best package.

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