I’ve covered a cardboard cafe and a cardboard office, but this is the first time I’ve seen the entire interior architecture of a guest house designed in cardboard. And, if that is not novel enough, the guest house is part of a villa that is literally carved into a mountain.
The design lives in a steep mountainside in Vals, Switzerland. Dutch designer Jeroen van Mechelen from Sutdio JVM, follows the natural elliptical shape of the upper contours of the sculpted cave with his medieval chapel-like criss-cross beams, dropping at wall height to form continuous shelves. Thus, the nickname of the guest house is "cabinet-cabin."
The 3-dimensional matrix formed by the CNC’d cardboard follows the natural curvature of the hollowed cave, and it creates two rooms – a bedroom and bathroom – both with lots of shelf space!
If this cabinet-cabin reminds you of medieval church architecture, look no further than St. Jerome In His Study‘ by Antonella da Messina…
… from which the inspiration for the cardboard cabinet came.
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