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The estate offers multiple covered outdoor spaces for casual entertaining. Both the Greenhouse and Conference Center are located just a short walk away.

The rear garden is filled with ferns, sedges, lowbush blueberry, and a poplar tree growing out of a rock face.

The master bedroom in this prefab passive house in the Catskills looks out onto a private, cantilevered deck. "This house for me is about contemplation," says homeowner Adrian. "You come here from the city and the place is saying, ‘Hi, meet yourself again.’" A low platform bed with stacked pillows instead of a headboard helps maintain that casual feel.

To turn a home into a permanent residence for a family of four, Rama Estudio attached a prefab glass-and-steel box that extends into the surrounding wilderness.

The landing looks out on the dining nook below. Although the couple were required to build on their previous home’s footprint, they were allowed to increase the building’s overall square footage by 25 percent, which brought it to 2,316.

The Pine wood-clad cabin sits atop an elevated platform left behind by a previous builder in a failed first construction attempt, and overlooks the Cautín River. "

The cabin]s elevated entrance path winds between existing trees.

Local carpenters were employed to build the home.

The home has more than 850 square feet of terrace space.

A built-in firepit on the deck is shielded from the elements by the roof overhang.

The home is elevated to allow for humidity protection and ventilation, but also in order to protect the biodiversity of the forest floor.

The home is surrounded by a dense ancient forest that Araneda embraced and preserved with an environmentally friendly design that incorporates natural ventilation and maximizes sunlight.

Architect Sergio Araneda designed a contemporary timber-wrapped cabin on a remote site in Malalcahuello, Chile.

London- and Oslo-based architectural practice Studio Bua turned a battered 1930s farm building into a 1,959-square-foot live/work space in Iceland’s remote Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve. To contrast with—but not distract from—the rugged outbuildings and surrounding landscape, the team built a low-impact timber insert that allows the existing structure to maintain its distinctive character while adding another level to the home. The architects meticulously restored the original concrete structure, which was "fragile in some places,