Iceland’s vast central highlands stretch north from its famous southern glaciers, desolate and largely uninhabited, so when a cabin on their northern slope is named Aska (or ash in Icelandic) for the volcanic dust that patinas this exotic geoscape, you might assume it’s built on a brown-gray wasteland.
It’s not. In fact, the Aska cabin, created by architects Casper Berntsen and Aldís Gísladóttir of Studio Heima, is located near Lake Mývatn,
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