A jet-black cabin referred to as Atelier Nyp has been constructed on the outdated foundations of a destroyed sheep shed by structure follow Studio Bua in distant western Iceland.
Named after Nypurhyrna mountain behind it, the cabin accommodates an artist’s studio and guesthouse, perched overlooking the expansive Breidafjordur fjord that could be a three-hour drive from Reykjavik.

Atelier Nyp is the newest addition to a cluster of former farm buildings on the distant website in Skardstrond which have been became a house, guesthouses and cultural areas by Studio Bua, which has places of work in London and Oslo.
The cabin is designed with a intentionally easy quantity to slot in with the opposite agricultural-style buildings on the compound. Its pitched roof is off-centre, nodding to the form of one of many space’s dominant mountain peaks.

One of many key components of the consumer’s transient was to reuse the stays of an present sheep shed construction on website to minimise the quantity of concrete required within the new constructing.
“We approached the challenge from the standpoint of sustainability and to maximise the present sources, each materials and cultural,” stated Studio Bua co-founder Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir.
“We repurposed the concrete basis from an present sheep shed that had blown off in extraordinarily unhealthy climate, which on this a part of the world just isn’t unusual,” she added.

Inside Atelier Nyp, there are two impartial items inside one house. The mountain-facing aspect is house to a kitchen and eating space with a workspace on the bottom ground and lodging for the artist consumer and her husband on the primary ground, together with a small workplace house.
In the meantime, on the opposite aspect of the constructing, there’s a mini condominium with a double-height bed room, rest room and kitchenette to lease out to guests. Subsequent to the cabin is a darkish inexperienced metal greenhouse, additionally designed by Studio Bua as a part of a earlier challenge.
“We’re fairly happy with how a lot we match into this little constructing, and it one way or the other feels spacious on the within,” added Sumarliðadóttir. “We additionally like the fundamental look, it appeared virtually like a diagram of a constructing on the skin.”
Based on Studio Bua, the consumer wished the guesthouse to be prepared for summer time so to hurry up building, the construction was constructed utilizing cross-laminated timber (CLT), which has been left uncovered on the within to create a heat end.

Its exterior is clad in corrugated metal to guard towards the cruel climate. The metal’s black end was chosen to tell apart it from its neighbours and emphasise the constructing’s uncomplicated form.
Along with the concrete foundations, Studio Bua additionally salvaged different objects for Atelier Nyp, together with an outdated stair from a historic constructing in Reykjavic and kitchen items from a fifties condominium block.

“We had been working in a rural space the place innovation and new methods of constructing will not be extremely seen,” defined Sumarliðadóttir. “The extra widespread manner of doing issues is demolishing the older buildings and importing prefab buildings in advanced supplies.”
“On this website we now have renovated a number of buildings to make a cultural centre that’s accessible to everybody within the space and so might affect folks to reuse and revalue the present constructing mass and its historical past,” she added.
Different cabins not too long ago featured on Dezeen embrace a white-painted retreat in Québec with a matching metal roof and one with a hat-shaped aluminium roof in Sweden.
The pictures is courtesy of Studio Bua.