Exterior facade of a timber-clad cabin covered in snow with diagonal
An alpine cabin exterior by Mork-Ulnes Architects showcasing diagonal timber cladding that catches snow to create a textured, winter-responsive facade.
- What we like about this project
- Snow accumulates linearly along every diagonal timber slat, creating a secondary patterned facade.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- snow
- steel
Visual identifiers
- diagonal-timber-cladding
- snow-covered-roof
- deep-window-reveals
- slender-stilts
Style tags
- contemporary
- rustic
- alpine
- contextual
Visual tags
- alpine
- winter-architecture
- timber-screen
- remote
- weather-responsive
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectangular mass elevated slightly on slender posts, featuring deep horizontal window reveals set into a heavily textured diagonal timber wall.
- Facade system
- Diagonal timber slat rainscreen over insulated wall assembly with recessed punched glazing.
- Structural guess
- Light timber frame raised on steel or concrete stilts above snow line.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story cabin volume, intimate human scale viewed from an exterior snowbank.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast winter daylight casting soft shadows within the deep window reveals and across snow-draped timber slats.
- Atmosphere
- Silent, cold, and monolithic as the timber facade blends into the snowy surroundings.
- Environmental context
- Remote snowy landscape with frost-covered evergreen trees and flat snow-covered ground under an overcast grey sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits embedded in an austere snowy landscape, its textured envelope catching snow drift to merge architecture with winter topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal timber slats interrupted by steady horizontal window groupings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic alpine architecture
- Program
- Remote residential cabin
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, snow, steel
- Visual identifiers
- diagonal-timber-cladding, snow-covered-roof, deep-window-reveals, slender-stilts
- Style tags
- contemporary, rustic, alpine, contextual
- Visual tags
- alpine, winter-architecture, timber-screen, remote, weather-responsive
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectangular mass elevated slightly on slender posts, featuring deep horizontal window reveals set into a heavily textured diagonal timber wall.
- Facade system
- Diagonal timber slat rainscreen over insulated wall assembly with recessed punched glazing.
- Structural guess
- Light timber frame raised on steel or concrete stilts above snow line.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story cabin volume, intimate human scale viewed from an exterior snowbank.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast winter daylight casting soft shadows within the deep window reveals and across snow-draped timber slats.
- Atmosphere
- Silent, cold, and monolithic as the timber facade blends into the snowy surroundings.
- Environmental context
- Remote snowy landscape with frost-covered evergreen trees and flat snow-covered ground under an overcast grey sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits embedded in an austere snowy landscape, its textured envelope catching snow drift to merge architecture with winter topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal timber slats interrupted by steady horizontal window groupings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic alpine architecture
- Program
- Remote residential cabin
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture