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Traditional Cabin in the Alps Meets Big Glass

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Wow. What beautiful proportion. What utter purity of line!

The attic bedroom is centered at the apex of this cabin in the Austrian alps.

The result is a dream bedroom on the top floor with the simplicity of a child’s stick-figure drawing.

This architectural style – mountain cabin with a perfect right-angle pitched gable roof – is not normally associated with extensive glazing.

But this house bucks that trend.

It is nearly entirely glass.

With such generous expanses of glazing, the interior seems to flow right out into nature.

Architects Hohensinn Architektur skilfully blended the house in with its more traditional neighbours.

The house is located in the mountains of Bad Aussee, Austria.

The delicate wooden rain screen gently filters light both coming in in the day and going out in the evenings.

The house is a careful blend of the two disparate architectural styles and pulls it off with panache.

The result is a very livable space – with a nod to tradition in its drawing – that makes something completely new.