LAAV Architects Build Modern Cabin Into Canadian Mountainside
This new retreat in the Canadian Rockies is not for the faint of heart. The project was designed by LAAV Architects, a firm that was hired after winning a competition to serve as the architectural ambassador to a marketing campaign by Infiniti Motors. More specifically, winning the competition gave LAAV the dream job of creating unique structures for a series of advertisements for the car company, which itself is about to launch the new 2018 Infiniti QX80 model and wanted some slick backgrounds against which they could film it. LAAV were more than up to the challenge, creating what can only be described as a car-crazy bachelor?s dream pad embedded into the granite face of an imposing mountainside.
This stylish ?cabin? is called ?Maralah,? a word meaning ?person who was born during an earthquake? in the language of the Native Americans who used to inhabit the area. This modern concrete volume juts out from the raw cliff face and eventually comes to a point (the corner of which is fully glazed), blurring the lines between interior and exterior and surely setting off someone?s vertigo if they are uncomfortable with heights.
Maralah is envisioned as an isolated retreat for anyone who’s looking to get away from the madness of city life and reconnect with nature in a luxurious fashion (rather than in a rustic log cabin). It takes its cues from architects like John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright, offering a particular sort of masculine retreat ? namely, a rural man cave fo...
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