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Hide & Seek

A black timber shelter among pine trees, a pale wooden bridge climbing from the rock onto its roof — Hide & Seek, among the pines at Femöre.

2025

Wind shelter, designed and built on site
ARKNAT, Femöre. With Tove Larsson, August Johannesson, Eddie Rud-Petersen and Christine Nordqvist

A wind shelter on the cliffs at Femöre, south of Stockholm, designed and built in two weeks with four others at the ARKNAT festival. We each pitched an idea on site; Tove's, the feeling of moving through the treetops, became our starting point, and everything after that we worked out together, drawing, testing and building as we went. The shelter sits in a small hollow out of the wind. Inside you can sleep, or just have a coffee while it rains and watch the blueberry bushes through the window. A bridge rests on the rock the way the branches do and leads up onto the roof, where you can sit in the shade of the pines and look out to sea. The idea worked as a rule to build by, rather than a fixed shape.

The pines here are wind-bent and twisted, and right where the shelter now stands, their branches rest against the rock for support, as if they're leaning into the wind and peeking over the cliff edge toward the horizon. We wanted our shelter to do the same.

The team, for ARKNAT

Someone sitting on the roof of the black shelter among pines, the curved timber bridge leading up to it — On the roof, among the treetops.

Two people sitting cross-legged inside the timber-lined shelter, seen through its square opening in the black facade — Inside, out of the wind.

The shelter and its bridge seen low across flowering heather, rock and pines — Across the heather. Press to open, and again to zoom in.

A person sitting against the timber wall inside, beside the bench and the end-grain wall — A place to sit out the rain.

A wide window in the timber wall framing a twisted pine branch and the rock — The window: pine branches and rock up close.

A person walking down the bridge from the shelter roof — Down the bridge from the roof.

The shelter seen through dense pines, a person sitting on top — Hidden in the hollow.

Wide view of the shelter tucked into a wooded hollow, sun breaking through the trees — In the hollow, out of the wind.

Timber interior of the shelter with a window on one side and a sloping plank wall at the back — Inside.

Looking up at the shelter in the evening, someone inside lit by work lights, fitting the interior — Evening, fitting the interior.

A hand sketching the shelter and the curving bridge in pen — Concept.

Students inside a full-size timber mock-up of the shelter, laid out with blue model parts — Working it out at full scale.

Two people at a table sanding small end-grain timber blocks — Making the end-grain blocks.

Seen from above, someone fitting end-grain blocks into a timber frame on the ground — Laying the end-grain wall.

Five people carrying long curved timber beams across a gravel yard in front of a red house — Carrying the bridge beams.

The team lifting a curved beam into place between pine trees on the rock — Setting out on the rock.

Two students fixing black cladding boards to the shelter wall — Cladding.