Pictured: The incredible £380,000 wooden cabin that slides open so you can sleep under the stars
- The moveable walls of the ‘Anna Collection’ cabin are mounted onto sliders
- Features include a ‘luxury’ bathroom, a shower and a fully-equipped kitchen
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Sleeping beneath the stars just got a whole lot more stylish, courtesy of this new cabin design.
Mounted onto sliders, the walls of the ‘Anna Collection’ cabin can be pushed open, exposing a section of the wooden lodging to the elements.
The cabin’s inner wall – called a ‘shell’ – is made of double-glazed glass, while the outer wall is made from wood. By manually pushing and pulling these ‘shells’, the space can be reconfigured to create a wooden roof or a glass roof, as well as opening the cabin up to the fresh air.
‘You might experience the beauty of a fierce rain shower from under the glass roof, wake up among the birds in the early morning and be mesmerized at night by the starry sky directly above your bed,’ says Caspar Schols, the Dutch architectural designer behind the structure.
The cabin, which takes around five days to assemble, is priced at £383,600 (€437,000). Features inside include a ‘luxury’ bathroom, a shower, a fully-equipped kitchen and two queen-sized beds – one that can be stowed away under a latch in the floor, and a second that sits in a mezzanine space that’s reached by a ladder.
Mounted on to sliders, the walls of the ‘Anna Collection’ cabin can be pushed open, exposing a section of the wooden lodging to the elements
The cabin’s inner wall – called a ‘shell’ – is made of double-glazed glass, while the outer wall is made from wood
There’s also a bathtub, which is tucked inside a nook that’s built into the floor.
The unusual shell design makes the cabin – which can reach a maximum length of 13m (42ft) – adaptable to the seasons. In the wintertime, its insulated wooden shell ‘keeps the warmth inside like a thick winter coat’, says Schols.
In spring or autumn, the glass keeps the rain outside or lets the sun in to warm up the space.
When the temperatures rise in the summertime, residents can slide and close the wooden layer to block the warming sun. Alternatively, they can slide the glass layer open to let the breeze inside.
According to Schols, the Anna Collection cabin can be used as a meditation hub, an office space, a holiday rental, an art studio, a guest house or simply as a home.
It’s planned that the first batch of cabins will be constructed in Europe later this year. Once purchased, the cabin will be constructed on a site of the owner’s preference by Schols and his team.
The cabin was designed by the Dutch architectural designer Caspar Schols
The space can be reconfigured to create a wooden roof or a glass roof. Residents manually push and pull the cabin open and closed
You might be ‘mesmerized at night by the starry sky directly above your bed’, says the designer
Depending on how its shells are arranged, the cabin can reach a maximum length of 13m (42ft)
The bathtub (left) is tucked inside a nook that’s built into the floor. Pictured right is the cabin’s shower, complete with ‘high-end taps’
The design is said to have ‘minimal ecological disruption’ and ‘can be disassembled and moved at any time without leaving a trace in nature’.
The designer notes that there are health benefits to staying in the cabin. Schols says: ‘By sliding the layers, “Anna” takes you by the hand to reconnect step by step with Mother Nature, which I believe is incredibly important for our own health and the health of our planet.
‘Margriet Sitskoorn, neuroscientist at Tilburg University, explains that what happens in the brain while staying at “Anna” is actually a strong cognitive response.
‘That is because your whole body is involved in opening up the whole cabin. From the perspective of the brain, you create your own outdoors. She relates this to Embodied Cognition. It is completely different and much more powerful than what happens if you just walk out through an ordinary door.’
The cabin, which takes around five days to assemble, is priced at £383,600 (€437,000)
‘You might experience the beauty of a fierce rain shower from under the glass roof,’ says the designer. There’s a fully-equipped kitchen (right) inside the cabin
According to the designer, the Anna Collection cabin can be used as a meditation hub, an office space, a holiday rental, an art studio, a guest house or simply as a home
One of queen-sized beds (pictured) can be stowed away under a latch in the floor
In spring or autumn, the glass shell keeps the rain outside or lets the sun in to warm up the space
Once purchased, the cabin will be personally built and signed off by the designer and his team
In the wintertime, the cabin’s insulated wooden shell ‘keeps the warmth inside like a thick winter coat’
Schols continues: ‘The cabin prepares the brain to open up and connect to the natural environment. And when the brain is fully connected to its natural environment, recovery processes kick in which are important to prevent health issues like chronic stress that so many of us suffer from due to the way we live.
‘This is also the reason why we don’t offer an electronic opening version of Anna. Using your own muscle power [to open the cabin] is essential.’
The designer has also created a sister cabin called Anna One, which has a starting price of around £219,345 (€250,000).
Schols says: ‘Anna One will come with the option to order as a flatpack that you put together yourself.’
You can apply to pre-order an Anna Collection cabin now at cabin-anna.com.
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