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The woodland shack at dusk, among tall autumn trees. A low single-storey building under a thin flat roof with a pale timber soffit. Most of the long front is floor-to-ceiling glass in black frames, showing a pale timber interior lit warm: a sofa, a black wood stove with its flue against the back wall, and a bed with a bedside lamp behind a timber partition. The right-hand end is a solid box of charred black vertical timber. A timber deck runs along the left half of the front, with a round timber hot tub steaming under blue light and a step down to the grass. A gravel path runs in at the bottom right. Off brief: the roof reads flat, where the drawings have a single low slope rising towards the deck. The left end is glazed too, where the drawings have glass only along the deck face. The stove sits against the back wall rather than in the middle of the room.

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Woodland shack

72 m² of charred timber 400 m into the woods, with a stove at the centre, a proper bed, a real bathroom and a hot tub on the deck.

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Woodland shack

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The notes

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About 12 by 6 m, 72 m² inside plus a 32 m² deck, at the end of a 400 m buggy track through the trees. It sits slightly west of the house line, and its glow can be seen at night from the main bedroom balcony, about 230 m away.

dark outside, warm inside

Charred black timber cladding under a single low-slope dark zinc roof that rises towards the deck. At night the walls disappear into the trees, and only the lit glass and the stove's glow show.

Inside are underfloor heating, a wood stove at the centre, a small kitchen on the wall, a proper bed and a real bathroom.

deck and tub

The hot tub sits on a deck facing the clearing, a few steps from the door. There is glass along that face, so the stove and the tub can see each other.

services run in

Power, water and drainage run along the buggy track in one trench. Drainage goes to a small treatment plant out of sight.

The drawings

1 sheet
Woodland shack plan, sheet A-301 rev AB, about 12 by 6 m, with the woods behind at the top and the clearing towards the house at the bottom. The living room with a stove in the middle and a small kitchen on the wall, a bedroom, and a narrow bathroom at the end, with glass along the front of the living room and bedroom. In front of the living room is a deck with the round hot tub.
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The plates

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The woodland shack at dusk, among tall autumn trees. A low single-storey building under a thin flat roof with a pale timber soffit. Most of the long front is floor-to-ceiling glass in black frames, showing a pale timber interior lit warm: a sofa, a black wood stove with its flue against the back wall, and a bed with a bedside lamp behind a timber partition. The right-hand end is a solid box of charred black vertical timber. A timber deck runs along the left half of the front, with a round timber hot tub steaming under blue light and a step down to the grass. A gravel path runs in at the bottom right. Off brief: the roof reads flat, where the drawings have a single low slope rising towards the deck. The left end is glazed too, where the drawings have glass only along the deck face. The stove sits against the back wall rather than in the middle of the room.
01 · The woodland shack at dusk