You’ve dreamed of having a summer cabin settled along a lake, but did you ever imagine an escape placed directly on the water? Architect Daniel Andersson has envisioned a nouveau lake house that lets guests sleep with the fish — where the living space sits directly below the water’s surface and from above emerges an expansive roof deck. Andersson’s design came about when he was approached by his client, Ålands Hotell & Restaurangskola, to create a fresh concept able to attract more guests to a resort located on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. What resulted was an incredible iceberg shaped building that sits beautifully on the waterscape and provokes onlookers to consider new, unconventional forms for living.
Beautiful Iceberg on the Baltic is a Brilliant Summer Cabin
by Andrew Michler, 09/03/10
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This is a very cool design, but I’m afraid that if we start building on water it really going to affect the under water Eco-system just like it does on land or worse.
Amazing piece of Architecture there. Keep it up.