Slate Cabin / TRIAS Studio
Slate Cabin is a writer?s retreat perched on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in Mid Wales. The building is set in a lush green valley that is ringed by barren, windswept hills and grazing pastures.
© Jonathon Donnelly
Architects: TRIAS Studio
Location: Wales, United Kingdom
Area: 13.8 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Jonathon Donnelly
Builder: RBW Carpentry
© Jonathon Donnelly
From the architect. Slate Cabin is a writer?s retreat perched on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in Mid Wales. The building is set in a lush green valley that is ringed by barren, windswept hills and grazing pastures.
Ground Floor Plan
In response to this beautiful and yet harsh landscape, the cabin is a reductive black box that is anchored to the ground. It provides protection and respite to visitors who wish to escape the wind, rain and snow.Â
© Jonathon Donnelly
Slate Cabin is inspired by the very bedrock of Wales ? its slate. Wales is a unique landscape, scattered with stone-strewn mountains, abandoned quarries and old slate homes. These qualities encouraged us to base our design around this local and historically significant material.
Exploded Axonometric
Slate Cabin is envisaged as a visual infrastructure for cataloguing Welsh slate. The exterior of the cabin is covered in local stone, which is fixed to the building like oversized shingles. These recycle...
© Jonathon Donnelly
Architects: TRIAS Studio
Location: Wales, United Kingdom
Area: 13.8 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Jonathon Donnelly
Builder: RBW Carpentry
© Jonathon Donnelly
From the architect. Slate Cabin is a writer?s retreat perched on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in Mid Wales. The building is set in a lush green valley that is ringed by barren, windswept hills and grazing pastures.
Ground Floor Plan
In response to this beautiful and yet harsh landscape, the cabin is a reductive black box that is anchored to the ground. It provides protection and respite to visitors who wish to escape the wind, rain and snow.Â
© Jonathon Donnelly
Slate Cabin is inspired by the very bedrock of Wales ? its slate. Wales is a unique landscape, scattered with stone-strewn mountains, abandoned quarries and old slate homes. These qualities encouraged us to base our design around this local and historically significant material.
Exploded Axonometric
Slate Cabin is envisaged as a visual infrastructure for cataloguing Welsh slate. The exterior of the cabin is covered in local stone, which is fixed to the building like oversized shingles. These recycle...
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