Cabin ANNA A Shapeshifting Cabin design LINKing house & Nature

 Some people dream. Others do. This house, it’s American owner, and its Dutch designer are doers.

You’re looking at a 300 square foot cabin in the Vermont woods, which can also transform itself into 500 square feet home with the middle part becoming either a glassed-in solarium, or an open-air furnished deck.
 
The roof and wall modules are made from prefabricated parts and can be shipped from the Netherlands to any location in the world for assembly.

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Cabin ANNA, as it’s known, was designed by Dutchman Caspar Schols to help its inhabitants connect with nature. It literally takes the inside outside.

​The exterior is crafted from black-stained Douglas fir, which might even originate from British Columbia, although I’m unsure.

​The inside is clad with pine wood from Oregon. Panels in the floor hide a queen-sized bed and a sunken bathtub. 

Dutch designer Caspar Schols created the Cabin ANNA for his mother

There’s also room for a second bed up top in an 80 square feet loft. The cabin’s design is simple, elegant, and sparse. The surrounding landscape is meant to be the star of the show, not the building. ​

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https://www.cabin-anna.com/about/mission

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The Cabin  ANNA’s base cost is 437,000 Euros ($661,000 CAD / $476,000 USD), so not cheap. The one you see below cost an additional $300,000 USD once you factor in the shipping costs, building a slab, installation, and running utilities to the site. It came to the United States courtesy of lawyer Yvette Lanneaux ​because of COVID. 

Cabin ANNA on Yvette Lanneaux's Sajima Farm, Pomfret, Virginia

                                         From Lawyer to Farmer

Yvette Lanneaux was a lawyer before the pandemic, but then she decided to buy a Babydoll Southdown sheep as a pet while stuck at home in Princeton, New Jersey, despite never having worked with farm animals before.

Ms. Lanneaux took some online courses from the Cornell Small farms Program, the University of Vermont and Michigan State University. The content was so engaging, Ms. Lanneaux stopped practicing law, bought 60 wooded acres in Vermont, sight unseen, and launched a hobby farm. She cleared five acres, drilled a well, and slept on the flatbed of her truck. Sleeping in the truck got old, so she reached out to Caspar Schols after reading about his nature-embedded cabin, and what you see here is the end-result.

Former lawyer and now hobby farmer Yvette Lanneaux with her husband Michael Nissan (Photo by Oliver Parini for The New York Times)

Now she’s a full-time shepherd with six sheep, chickens and a guard-llama to protect them all. Plus, she has a modular cabin that sits on rails. 
 
Pretty cool, dont you think?