Beautiful cabins in the remote wilderness

Austrian architect Bernd Riegger created this cabin for a children’s charity that offers outdoor education programmes. Photo: Adolf Bereuter

The wooden slat openings are designed for the children to show off treasures collected from the surrounding forest trails. Photo: Adolf Bereuter

This cabin by Reiulf Ramstad Architects is in the mountainous village of Ål, which is located in the south-west corner of Norway. Photo: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

The interior are lined with untreated plywood sheets to echo the surrounding birch forest. Photo: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

Maddison Architects designed this sharply angled and luxuriously appointed cabin in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Photo: William Watt

To minimise the cabin’s bulk and integrate it with the surrounding bush, the ground-floor living space is partially dug into the slope of the site. Photo: William Watt

This cabin takes its name from Rabbit Snare Gorge, which is located on the remote island of Cape Breton in the farthest north-east corner of Canada. Photo: Doublespace

The tall timber-clad cabin was designed by New York architects [Design Base 8]( http://designbase8.com/ |target=”_blank”) and local architect Omar Gandhi. Photo: Doublespace

This curvaceous cabin was created as a reading room that adjoins a weekender in the NSW Southern Highlands. Photo: Tom Ferguson

Architects Benn + Penna referenced the shape and materials of the existing weekender when designing this new dwelling. Photo: Tom Ferguson

Perched on a rocky outcrop below Skuta Mountain in Slovenia, this tiny cabin can shelter up to eight mountaineers. Photo: by Janez Martincic

Alpine Shelter Skuta was designed by Harvard University students during an architectural workshop hosted by Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik of Slovenian studio [OFIS]( http://www.ofis-a.si/ |target=”_blank”). Photo: Anze Cokl

London architecture studio [De Rosee Sa](http://www.deroseesa.com/ |target=”_blank”) designed and built this bewitching black cabin beside a picturesque lake in Belgium. Photo: Will Scott

To create the black façade, the architects mixed wood stain with recycled tractor oil, a finish which is commonly used on local agricultural buildings. Photo: Will Scott

Moonlight Cabin is a holiday retreat overlooking the ocean in far south-west Victoria. Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch of Gollings Studio

Designed by Jackson Clements Burrows the cabin features perforated shutters which provide light and ventilation to the interiors when unoccupied. Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch of Gollings Studio

This pair of elegant cabins were designed as holiday homes by Cheshire Architects and overlook Kaiwaka Harbour on New Zealand’s north-west coast. Photo: Trent Bell

“Holiday homes have become this country’s decadence,” designer Nat Cheshire told Dezeen. “We wanted a different vision for New Zealand’s coastal future.” Photo: Trent Bell

These three linking cabins were designed and built by Go Logic and are located on the coast of Maine in the United States. Photo: Trent Bell

The buildings are made entirely of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, an inexpensive building material. Photo: Trent Bell