Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has built a house entirely from timber, which is arranged in five boxes to avoid existing pine trees in Klein Köris, eastern Germany.
Built in a forested area near the lakeside village of Klein Köris, the single-storey house's staggered layout was determined by the existing pine trees on the site. Zelle & Moye aimed to reduce the house's impact by avoiding these trees and raising the home above the ground.

"The house hovers above the ground and intermingles with the plot's trees to minimise its impact on the surrounding nature," said Zeller & Moye co-founder Ingrid Moye.
"Thus the fragmented volumes generate external nooks along the facade," she told Dezeen.

The architecture studio built the 130-square-metre house in five timber boxes. The largest rectangular box contains the main kitchen, dining and seating area, with three flexible rooms ? which are designed to be used as a bedroom, studio, workshop or guest room ? and a bathroom in the other boxes.

"Each box encloses one program from the brief," said Moye, who is a judge of this year's Dezeen Awards.
"The central box works as the heart of the residence as an open room for eating, dining, and living; whereas the private functions spread out into individual cubes with views across the landscape," she continued.

"The position of the boxes responds to the locations of the trees, creating enough distance to the plot's outlin...