This tiny flat-pack cabin can be transformed into a vacation home
Aug 21, 2020 • 2 min read
Whether you’re craving extra space in quarantine or shopping for a vacation home to take to the woods, this Hungarian architecture and design company believes its newest tiny cabin – a reasonably-priced prefabricated model – will fit the bill.
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Drawing on the Eastern European country’s “rural architectural heritage” to create an intimate space for work or relaxation, Hello Wood’s Kabinka cabin taps into the tiny house trend, cramming a small kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping loft into one compact footprint.
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The Budapest studio’s first-ever flat-pack design comes in four sizes, but the basic version is nearly four meters-tall from floor to ceiling, with 12 square-meters of floor space, while the largest is 20 meters-square, with a ten-square-meter patio. It can be delivered unfurnished or fully-equipped, to individual customers or campsites and festival organizers.
It can be installed on its own lot or in a backyard, where it can serve as guest quarters or studio space, a vacation rental or a private escape. A press release from Hello Wood points out that the interior is coolable and heatable for year-round enjoyment, and “thanks to its low energy consumption and environmental focus, the cabin is also greener than a house built of non-renewable materials with conventional technologies.”
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Designed and constructed in Hungary, the flat-pack kit features industrial wall panels and a wooden frame, a combination that lends a unique look to the finished product. “Beyond the reimagined building materials and the innovations,” project architect Péter Oravecz says in a promotional video, “Kabinka also comes with the advantage of being fully-customizable in terms of internal and external appearance. It’s the modular design, which makes it fully flexible and linkable. It can be built as a personal space, a sauna, a beach hut, or a workstation.”
“Although assemble-it-yourself solutions are uncommon on the tiny-house scene of Hungary,” the press release notes, “Hello Wood believes that focusing on wood and creation helps everyone unearth long-forgotten talents and skills… Even the customers can assemble Kabinka from prefabricated elements.”
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