trekBOOK trekBOOK is a trekking cabin that is exclusively Iceland - taking cues from the country’s landscape and culture to provide an innovative, adaptable, and ethereal trekking experience. 1 in every 10 Icelanders will publish a book. This design emphasizes what makes Iceland unique and interprets it into an architectural narrative. The cabin’s form and expression was borne from the landscape, storytelling, and authorship. Arriving to the site by helicopter, trekBOOK is a clean, pre-fabricated rectangular volume – a closed book. Upon landing, the pod’s diamond-pier footings allow it to adjust to the ground beneath it. In the subsequent steps highlighted on the right, the cabin is revealed by unfolding hinged panels, much like cracking open a new book. A trekBOOK is created by the placement of one energy pod bookended followed by two sleeping pods on either side. The hinged platforms fit together in a way that creates public gathering spaces amidst the energy and sleeping pods. This design can grow on a site over time, allowing more users to be accommodated as Iceland’s tourism continues to increase. trekBOOK can be repeated to become a complex of trekking cabins - an exchange between people from all over the world.
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