Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk have covered a new sauna and an existing traditional wooden smoke sauna, in Varbola, Estonia, with a zigzagging aluminium roof.
Architects Pere and Kedelauk designed the modern sauna to stand alongside a wooden sauna that sits on a farm, surrounded by a cluster of sheds and woodland, in Varbola, which is around 35 miles south of Tallinn.

"The old, already remodelled smoke sauna was the catalyst of the design," said the architects.
"A separate new entity would have left the old building in a sad state, thus began the idea of building on and around it, packing the old with the new."

From certain angles, the plain metal elevations and roof of the new building blend with the existing nearby sheds, but the two open ends reveal the combination of new and old. Sitting atop a platform of wooden decking, the sauna buildings and the roof structure have been conceived as two separate, layered elements.

To the east, the steep pitch of the new roof follows that of the original sauna building, before dropping to bridge an open walkway and then becoming the roof of the new sauna.

The gaps between the roof and the sauna buildings have become walkways, illuminated by strip lighting and diamond-shaped openings, which appear throughout the structure. Skylights have also been placed in the roof to allow existing birch trees to continue to grow.

"There are many different layers to this little building," said the architects.
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