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Futuristic Prefab Office Pods Make You Feel Like You’ve Landed On The Moon

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Hungary-based architecture and design firm Hello Wood initially started off as a summer camp for students with an inclination towards architecture and design in 2010. Over the years, the firm has grown and evolved, and it began to produce cabins and public installations which slowly developed into a detached prefab workstation in 2020, which perfectly found its footing during the pandemic. “Although there had been a need for more separate meeting rooms before the pandemic,” says Ráday, “there is now a rapidly growing demand for isolated work possibilities.” Dubbed the Pebble, this timber-clad workstation has now grown into something futuristic and pretty cool-looking.

Designer: Hello Wood

Hello Wood’s original Pebble pod was clad in wood and is now being customized by the firm to have a more futuristic look. The pod is being customized for a fiber optic company, to provide them with three auxiliary meeting rooms. The client wanted three of the pods to be placed in his front yard, he wanted people to look at them and feel as if they’ve just landed on Mars! To achieve this sleek and uber-cool look, the firm covered the pod with aluminum composite panels and utilized many of the latest technologies. The resulting rooms can be used as office rooms, meeting rooms, and creative spaces. The goal was to create spaces that look innovative and provide inspiration to the clients as they work through the day.

As you enter the pod, you are welcomed by air-conditioned interiors, amped with high-tech features, such as motorized mounts for monitors, LED lighting, and digital boards. The interiors are defined by a glazed entryway, a skylight, as well as two windows, which give the pod a spacious feel, allowing natural light to stream in throughout the day. The amount of glass utilized inside the pod can be customized depending on the user’s requirement.

The Pebble pods occupy around 86 square feet and are priced at a starting price point of around $47,7000. This includes the cabin and basic furnishing but does not include shipping and installation costs, which can vary depending on the delivery location. Within Europe, the pods can be shipped on a truck bed in one piece.

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These rustic prefab cabins in rural Hungary are inspired by the shape of rocks

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Nestled in the heart of Csóromfölde, Hungary is six stunning polygonal cabins called ‘Rock Cabins’. Designed and constructed by architectural firm Hello Wood in collaboration with TreeHouses, the brains, and brawn behind the immensely popular cabins in Noszvaj, the cabins have an almost mystical and mysterious appeal to them! Each cozy cabin accommodates two people, making it the ultimate romantic getaway.

Designer: Hello Wood and TreeHouses

Quite interestingly, the cabins are inspired by the shape of rocks. The intention behind these raw and real cabins was to create something that would harmoniously blend with nature, functioning as a natural extension of it. The cabin’s rock-like aesthetic helps it to effortlessly merge with the natural landscape surrounding it. Csóromfölde was once a farmstead and has hosted multiple architectural education programs and festivals through the years. However, once the summer season ended, Csóromfölde and its surrounding villages were abandoned for the rest of the year. Hello Wood is sure that with the creation of the Rock Cabins, they will be able to provide work to the locals not only during the construction process but also through operative tasks throughout the year as well! They’re excited to create job opportunities for the local people, thereby boosting the local economy, and also attracting more tourists to this lovely location!

The cabins were designed to be warm, minimal, and sustainable. Dark grey wooden panels, sharp edges, an intriguing geometric form, and an almost monolithic build make the cabins extremely unique, and unlike the usual A-frame cabins, we tend to come across. The interiors feature a living room, a bedroom area, fully-functioning kitchen appliances, a built-in wardrobe, and a dining table.

The bathroom is well equipped with a double shower and a panoramic infrared sauna. And the real star of the cabin is (according to me) – a large hot tub fitted into the spacious terrace, with direct access to the shower! Say hello to some much-needed downtime.

To ensure complete privacy and a truly relaxing experience, the cabins have been placed facing away from each other and towards the surrounding lush fields, and the rolling hills.  And of course, sustainability was a key element during the construction of the cabins! The cabins are primarily prefabricated – on-site construction work was reduced as much as possible. The innovative structure and cladding ensure that the cabins can be heated and cooled with minimum energy consumption. The main living area has been raised from the ground, the technical systems have been positioned below it, while the roof manages to balance the temperature within the cabins.

Could you see yourself spending a Hungarian summer at the Rock Cabins?

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This tiny cabin rises above the ground on four stilts to mimic treehouses

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Wauhaus is a 20sqm tiny cabin on stilts that was inspired by the build of treehouses.

Even when we were little, we dreamed of escaping to some treehouse in the forest, free from the humdrum of everyday life to start a new one in the woods. Taking cues from the treehouses that defined our childhoods, Hello Wood, an international architecture studio based in Budapest, designed Wauhaus. Perched above a sloping hillside in Hungary’s Zala County, Wauhaus is a tiny cabin inspired by children’s treehouses that depends on four stilts to remain aboveground.

Spurred by the recent popularity gained by mobile lifestyles and downsized living, the architects at Hello Wood tried their hand at constructing their own tiny cabin. Describing this recent cultural shift towards tiny, mobile living, Hello Wood writes,

“Treehouses, design cabins, forest huts, glamping–the long-lasting popularity of exciting accommodations is not surprising; many of us want to leave behind the noise of the city from time to time and get closer to nature. Modern treehouses–which take the children’s tree platforms to a whole new level–provide this experience. We can retreat in a canopy-level house or a cabin with legs to watch the wildlife of the quiet forest, listen to the rustle of leaves, or immerse ourselves in the view unfolding before us.”

Envisioned to be a private workspace or remote holiday retreat, the 20sqm Wauhaus keeps a low profile and the charm in the details. Reinforced by triple screws, Wauhaus rises above the ground on four wooden beams of varying heights to form a unique silhouette and standing profile. The exterior facades are wrapped in graphite gray larch planking to maintain a discreet profile amidst the cabin’s natural surroundings.

A side ramp gradually ascends from the ground to the home’s entrance. Inside, residents are greeted by an open-plan layout that culminates as a single space that leaves enough room for a workstation or sleeping accommodations, a small kitchenette, and a bathroom. The interiors are planked by natural birch plywood, offering a sun-soaked, bright contrast to the tiny cabin’s gray-scale exterior.

Designer: Hello Wood

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These smart city furniture uses solar panels, creating WiFi hotspots + charging outlets for the urban environment!

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Industries across the globe are steadily moving toward a smart future. A handful of public schools in Hungary went so far as to host a competition called “Smart School,” which gave designers creative freedom to conceptualize smart public furniture for schoolyards and city centers. For Smart School, Hello Wood, an architecture and design studio, designed and created the Fluid Cube and City Snake, two pieces of smart public furniture currently located in Hungary’s schoolyards.

Designed for use by the public, both the Fluid Cube and the City Snake primarily function as city benches with the same technical attributes. The Fluid Cube is a 9 cubic meter cube structure that partially encloses two parallel benches with an overhead roof for shelter during bad weather. The City Snake, a 7.5-meter outdoor bench that curves and bends to provide unique sitting options to travelers looking for a bit of respite. While the two structures provide seating for the public, they also come equipped with solar panels that generate power for some of the structure’s more technical features. Raised parts of the City Snake accommodates traditional solar panels, while solar cells are overlaid on the Fluid Cube’s glass roof. The solar panels on both of the structures yield power to use the built-in USB charging outlets, the WiFi hotspots, as well as the benches’ lighting systems.

Based in the bustling city of Budapest, Hello Wood designs and builds site-specific, public installations almost entirely from wood. City centers are known for travelers, commuters, busy workdays, and long walks. With smart technology outfitting most modern appliances and furniture, public furniture is getting revamped with smart features. Since a charger and WiFi are almost always needed throughout the day, Hungary’s smart, public furniture has both.

Designer: Hello Wood

The Fluid Cube’s roof provides a sheltered space for city-goers caught in the rain.

Featuring two parallel benches, the Fluid Cube primarily functions as a meeting place for sitting.

The Fluid Cube was almost entirely constructed from sustainably harvested wood.

Solar panels line the Fluid Cube’s roof to provide power for WiFi and the bench’s charging outlets.

The City Snake appears as more of a traditional city bench, with raised edges and panels for reclined sitting.

The City Snake powers up its WiFi hotspot and charging outlets from its solar panel.

This DIY tiny wooden cabin comes with a Scandinavian aesthetic and a flatpack design!

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Do you love DIYs? Me too! But let’s think big. Okay, a little bigger but not more than a tiny house. Now, what if I told you that you can build your own tiny cabin DIY style? Perfect 2020 project! A Hungarian company called Hello Wood has designed a tiny minimalist cabin that you can assemble yourself for creative space solutions or just an escape from your living room.

The prefabricated cabins start at $10,200 and have been crafted in a way that anyone can put it together, it is truly the ultimate DIY project. With the tiny home market ‘growing’ rapidly, the Kabinka cabin is positioned to be like IKEA furniture – easy to assemble with an aesthetic that is loved by most. The Kabinka cabin comes in four sizes that range between 129 and 215 square feet. It is a tiny cabin but it has high ceilings – over 12 feet high actually – that bring a sense of spaciousness and luxury to the otherwise simple structure. The ceiling space is well optimized to give the cabin a loft-like setup that can be used as storage space or a cozy reading nook.

Another cool thing about Kabinka is that it is a flatpack design! You can also customize it to suit your needs – it can be a private backyard workstation or a mini weekend holiday home without the heavy price tag (since you assemble it, it brings down the costs!). The assembly can take between 1-3 days and the designers say all you need is “a good bunch of helpers, basic tools and enthusiasm” to build Kabinka. The basic layout can easily fit a couch, a tea kitchen, and a stove but Hello Wood allows you to add any of these extras – landscaping, loft bed, bathroom, extra windows, glass wall, furniture, and more. While the base model isn’t suited to year-round living, with the right additions it can be easily transformed into a permanent tiny home.

“Our design-build projects are developed with people in mind. We work primarily with wood to create installations that invite participation, benefit local causes, and best serve our clients’ needs. Creating a quality space was the focus of the design process. Spatial quality isn’t necessarily characterized by big size, rather deliberate complexity. Each and every millimeter counts but we believe that for those who share this level of consciousness it is not a challenge but joy to spend their time in a minimalist home.” says the team. In my opinion, we all need to flee this urban lifestyle and get our own tiny homes so we can WFH with views for days!

Designer: Hello Wood