A striking jet black cabin, known as the studio Nyp, was built on the historical basis of a destroyed sheep by the architecture company Studio BuA in the remote extensive western Island. This cabin takes its name from the Nypurhyrna Mountain, which rises behind it, and serves both as an artist studio and as a guest house. With a breathtaking view of the extensive Breidafjordur Fjord, which is about three hours of Reykjavik.
The cabin has a intentionally simplified and subtle design that is supposed to harmonize with the agricultural aesthetics of the existing buildings in the connection. His central roof is a subtle reference to the shape of one of the outstanding mountain peaks in the region.
Designer: Studio BuA
Customers wanted the remains of an existing sheep shed to be reused on the property in order to reduce the amount of concrete that is used to build the new structure. “From the perspective of sustainability, we have turned to the project and the existing resources both material and culturally,” said Studio BuA co-founder Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir. “We converted the specific foundation from an existing sheep shed that was blown up in extremely bad weather, which is not unusual in this part of the world,” she concluded.
In the NYP studio, the room is cleverly divided into two separate units. On the side of the mountains there is a kitchen and a dining area as well as a work area on the ground floor. The first floor offers housing accommodations for the artist customer and her husband, to whom a small office area belongs. On the opposite side of the building there is a self-contained mini-parent for visitors. This device has a bedroom with double heights, a bathroom and a kitchenette. In addition to the cabin, you will find a dark green steel greenhouse, a part of an earlier project that was also designed by Studio BuA.
The customer's wish was to prepare the guest house for the summer. In order to speed up the construction process, the new building with cross-laminated wood (CLT) was built. The CLT is exposed from the inside to achieve a warm and cozy finish. “We are quite proud of how much we fit into this small building, and it somehow feels spacious inside,” said Sumarliðadóttir. “We also like the elementary look, it almost seemed to be like a diagram of a building from the outside.”
The outside of Atelier NYP is dressed in corrugated steel and offers protection against hard weather conditions. The black finish of the steel was selected to lift it from neighboring structures and emphasize the uncomplicated design of the building. In addition to the use of the original concrete foundation, studio BuA, integrated, integrated materials in the construction of Atelier Nyp. This included an old staircase from a historic building in Reykjavik and kitchen units from a apartment block from the 1950s.
