Swedish architecture studio Wingårdhs has completed a cluster of five suites for the Trakt Forest Hotel in Småland, raised on metal stilts to give visitors the feeling of being among the tree canopy.
Purposefully simple and minimal in order to "put nature in focus", the cabins are part of the Trakt Hotel's wider complex, which includes a restaurant and sauna connected by small woodland paths.
Wingårdhs has created woodland suites for the Trakt Forest Hotel. Photo is by Joakim Na?dell
Wingårdhs sought to have as little impact on the landscape as possible, perching the hotel cabins on steel columns atop concrete plinths and constructing them from locally-grown wood that was carried onto the site.
"We wanted to keep the ground as untouched as possible and dig as little as possible, to make sure that the tree root systems ? and everything else living in the area ? would stay unharmed," Gert Wingårdh, partner at Wingårdhs, told Dezeen. The suites are raised on metal stilts. Photo is by Joakim Na?dell
Grouped in a roughly circular arrangement, each cabin is accessed via a long ramp leading directly into a living area that gently widens to frame a large window looking out at the forest.
At the opposite end, on the other side of a bathroom and storage area, the bedrooms are more private and finished in wooden panelling that has been stained a deep shade of green.
They are constructed from locally-grown wood
A deep-set skylight above the bed frames views of...