Architecture and design office Out of the Valley has completed a wooden holiday cabin on a farm in Devon, England, featuring a mono-pitched roof and sliding doors that open onto a sheltered veranda.
The Holly Water holiday retreat was designed and built by Out of the Valley for clients who wanted to add a self-contained rental property to the farm near Exeter.
The cabin is the latest bespoke project to be completed by the Devon-based studio, which is headed by designer Rupert McKelvie.
Above: the wooden holiday home is built on an English farm. Top image: its sloped roof shelters a veranda
As with all of Out of the Valley's buildings, Holly Water Cabin was built by McKelvie and his team, who specialise in timber construction using sustainable design principles. "The building is constructed around a Douglas fir frame, raised off the ground on pier foundations in order to minimise the need for concrete," explained Out of the Valley.
"It is highly insulated ? with plant-based insulation ? and with a high specification of membrane and envelope details for longevity and energy efficiency."
It is clad in cedar
An exposed timber frame supports a large, sloping roof made from corrugated metal, with generous eaves protecting the walls from the elements.
The external cladding is made from cedar sourced from a mill close to the company's Dartmoor workshop, and the roof also shelters a larch veranda that extends around one corner of the building.
Sliding glass doors...