Floating House, Modern Tree House, Stilt House…
By Tree House I don’t mean the playful, child-size treehouse that we think of in the backyard, though that would be fun to design! I mean a modern home that is ‘floating” above the ground. The easiest way I can think to describe this is as a “Modern Tree House”, and if you search #moderntreehouse on google you’ll see others agree!
Inspiration for a Writer’s Studio
We are working on a very unique and exciting project at the moment for which the word “creative” is absolutely the main inspiration. Our clients, one a writer and the other an artist, have asked us to design 2 separate studios to inspire their creative minds at work. (We wrote about this in a previous post here.) Initially our plan was to renovate the existing garage into the Artist’s Studio (#artistsgarage) and an old chicken coop into the Writer’s Studio. That plan changed slightly due to the variation in topography between the main house and the existing chicken coop (going to and from the #writerscoop in winter would have been no fun), so we are now designing a Writer’s Treehouse. How cool is that?!?
Needless to say, finding inspiration images for this project has been tons of fun, even if they are in very different environments than trees! Thought we’d share some of our favorite Modern Tree Houses with you below. Enjoy!
Mirrorcube by Tham & Videgard, image from Hotels.com and the Tree Hotel in Harads
Fleinvaer Refugium by TYIN Tegnestue + Rentala Eggertsson, Photography by Pasi Aalto
The 7th Room by Snohetta, Photography by Johan Jansson
Vivien Gimenez Architecture, Photography by Sergio Grazia · Housing in Romainville
Cabin on Flathead Lake by Andersson-Wise Architects, Photos from Andersson-Wise Architects