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Refugio 3 x 3 lower floor plan

The living space includes a Stuv woodburning stove. To balance the raw hemlock, Braithwaite customized industrial touches like Edison-bulb light fixtures that suspend at varying heights on fabric wire.

The interior is lined almost entirely in birch plywood panels.

A clerestory harnesses natural light for the bath.

Lagos has raised the cabin above the ground on supporting steel to avoid damaging any of the existing trees on site.

Generations of family have lived on this wooded, waterfront site, where architect Will Randolph has built a weekend getaway for less than $70,000.

Solar panels provide power for the two cabins.

The organic placement of the windows echoes the knots on the trunks of the surrounding trees.

To avoid excavating the land, Pang and Boyle designed a structural platform to keep the cabin level.

Madison points out that the pod concept would make it easy to add an extension if necessary. “We see it as a house that can grow with us—and that we can pay for as we go along.”

Built on a tight budget of $120,000, a retirement home in the mountains delivers unexpected contemporary design to a rural township.