A lakeside forest on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark, is the setting for this copper-clad writer's cabin designed by architecture and landscape office Sleth.
Sleth, a practice with offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus, designed The Author's House to function as a full-time workspace for its client.
The building is designed to take advantage of its natural setting, with large sliding glass doors that frame views in all directions and allow the living space to extend outside.
The building has a gabled profile
Another building occupied the site before The Author's House, so the cabin has been built over pre-existing foundations.
Planning regulations dictated that the building should follow the same rectangular footprint as its predecessor, which led Sleth to design a building with gabled profile and a simple layout. Copper clads the exterior walls and roof
The materials palette was chosen to help the building blend with the landscape as much as possible.
The most distinctive of these is the reddish-brown copper skin, while will eventually oxidise to a green tone.

"On the plot there are large copper beech trees that match the colour of the copper facade," said Leth.
"In time, as the copper oxidises towards a more green tone, the colours will match the other trees in the area, which are more traditional green."
The flooring is a concrete aggregate intended to resemble the forest floor
Sleth typically works on large-scale urban projects, with previously complet...