Project Ö Cabin - Contemporary Self-Sufficient Summer House On The Edge Of Tiny Finnish Island

Project Ö Cabin by Aleksi Hautamäki & Milla Selkimäki, Contemporary Self-Sufficient Summer House On The Edge Of Tiny Finnish Island. Completed summer cabin project in the Finnish Archipelago, called Project Ö, where “Ö” means ‘an island’ in Swedish. We purchased the 5-acre island, on the edge of the Archipelago National Park, two years ago and have since built the main cabin with a sauna and the workshop. The buildings pay a tribute to the traditional Finnish archipelago aesthetics, with cabled roof, long eaves, extended gutters and vertical cladding. The shape of the cabins is long and narrow, which allows for large window surfaces with varying views, as well as possibilities for very different types of functions at the opposite ends of the building; for example, sundowner drinks with friends at one end, while the kids are sleeping in the other. The vision was to have all things necessary with as little space as possible. All individual spaces have been des