Trekronekabin by Tommie Wilhelmsen, Norway

Accessible only by boat, this private lodge is placed on a steep rock buried deep in the woods

Using only local materials, including oak, pine and fir taken directly from island, architect Tommie Wilhelmsen has created a sleek but sympathetic intervention into the landscape that is the perfect escape for the owner's family and friends

Sober black and natural oak tone sympathetically with the surroundings, whilst the intersection of house and rock is treated as dramatically as possible, with slender steel pilotis pushed to the edges of the floorplan, and the whole building visually anchored to a rocky outcrop by the vertical concrete shaft of the chimney

The client wanted only one thing; a retreat that evoked the feeling of rising above the trees to catch the sun and watch the ocean, just a few hundred feet away

Designed for summer occupation, rather than as a snowy bolthole, the Sjernaroy cabin is open and inviting, the curving slats of the interior wooden ceilings curving down and round to enclose the sitting area