Article source: DRAA + Magdalena Besomi 

Cabin Shangrila is the first of a series of elevated mountain cabins designed to populate a tall native woodland. Trees dating various centuries can be found in the plot delimited by a 100-metre vertical basalt face and a stream.

The soil is rich in biodiversity but also depicts the battle occurring in the wood; large fallen trees rotting and supporting new life, layers of volcanic ash combine with fallen branches that randomly reshape the flow of water. In wintertime, the canopy thins allowing more light and thick snow to penetrate.

Image Courtesy © Magdalena Besomi and Felipe Camus

• Architects: DRAA + Magdalena Besomi
• Project: Cabin Shangrila
• Location: Las Trancas, Nevados de Chillan, CHILE
  
• Photography: Magdalena Besomi, Felipe Camus
  
• Design Team: Nicolas del Rio, Felipe Camus, Magdalena Besomi
• Built Surface: 45m2.
• Surface Ground: 1 hec
• Year Project: 2014
• Year Construction: 2016

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