Weekend Cabin: Project Ö
Building a sublime island getaway on the edge of Finland's Archipelago National Park
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape—for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite.
The Archipelago Sea, located in the Baltic, is home to more than fifty thousand islands, islets, keys, cays, skerries, and hunks of rock. It’s the world’s largest archipelago when counting specks of dry land. And that would seem to make it a fiendishly difficult place to find one, and just one, on which to locate your dream cabin. Indeed, the designers who created Project Ö spent five years searching the cold waters between
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