Arthur?s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin at Castell y Bere, Contemporary Welsh Building Images
Arthur?s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin at Castell y Bere
New Architecture Design in North Wales – design by Miller Kendrick Architects
22 May 2017
Arthur?s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin at Castell y Bere in North West Wales
Design: Miller Kendrick Architects
Location: Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom
Arthur?s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin at Castell y Bere, Wales

Miller Kendrick have completed the build of their competition winning entry for a of ?pop-up hotel? cabin located at Castell y Bere, Wales.

The cabin, known as ?Arthur?s Cave?, was one of eight winning entries for the Epic Retreats – a partnership between holiday cottage firm Best of Wales, tour operator Cambria Tours and George & Tomos Architects. The project was part funded by the Welsh Government?s Tourism Product Innovation Fund.
The cabin will be featured as part of Channel 4?s ?Cabins in the Wild with Dick Strawbridge? documentary series, with the first of four episodes due to air on Sunday 21st May.

The design takes its inspiration from the ancient landscape of Wales but utilises modern construction techniques. The structure is a combination of CNC-cut birch plywood ribs and sheathing panels, which act together to form a composite structure.

The structural ribs are comprised of either three or five individual sections of plywood, tightly fitted together using ?jigsaw? joints with a high degree of tolerance.

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