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Slide-Out Guest Bedrooms Define Odd French Holiday Cottage

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An unusual all-black holiday cottage from Atelier Raum in the French Bretagne region quietly but definitively defies local village traditions.

A huge skylight brings brilliant light into an all-white interior room, contrasting with the dark exterior.

This roof-wide skylight is at the base of a green roof that appears to continue the wooded hillside up another slope.

Even stranger, this brilliantly daylit room is dug into the hillside, creating a pair of 45 degree angles with the roof slope.

Interestingly, two guest bedrooms can be rolled entirely out of the tiny cottage, and placed facing any direction.

Or stored inside.

The result is a house that can be uniquely connected to the outside for a kind of camping experience.

One enormous window connects the rule-defying cottage bedroom to its villagers.

The eerie effect is that of a periscope peering out at unfriendly terrain.

In such a tradition-bound setting, this odd cottage is probably in exactly that relationship.