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Guest Cottages Like Lanterns in the Woods

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The Dry Creek Outbuildings by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in California show how to build in the forest.

Wooden buildings in this kind of wooded setting can become damp and moldy, but glass is impervious to rot.

So the buildings are three sided glass boxes in the woods.

And steel-framed floors are raised off the ground to protect against rot.

The spaces are simultaneously fully open to the surroundings and protected from them.

In the guest cottage, only a headboard comes between a slumbering guest and the forest surroundings.

The view from one dry glass box to another reveals the modular steel and glass construction, like commercial windows.

The wood at the core of the interiors casts a golden glow on even the dreariest days.

As twilight falls the glow of light within intensifies, creating two lanterns in the forest.

And inside, there is this opportunity for a woodland shower in a dappled glade, surrounded by natural stone.