Cedar Cabin is boutique short-stay accommodation for luxury travel brand, The Eastern. The result is a thoughtfully crafted 40sqm cabin offering a rare experience for the modern traveler.
Perched above Thredbo river and with uninterrupted views to Mount Kosciusko, Cedar Cabin can be found within the Darryl Jackson Robin Dyke designed, Riverside. Following on from the brands first project, the need for fashionable accommodation in Thredbo for a discerning clientele remained the inspiration.
New work was conceived as a series of low-tech insertions. An L-shaped kitchen was replaced with a ‘dry’ utility wall and a ‘wet’ island with a dining component. The extent of the kitchen can swell during cooking and deflate for dining. Perforations provide dappled light and privacy and suggests from the footpath that this cabin varies from the others. In the washroom, a luxurious bath is lined in glazed Japanese ceramics and the walls in polished cement sheeting. A blackened steel shroud hugs the basin and emulates the folded steel detail in the kitchen and loft credenza.
The loft is sparsely decorated with a bespoke bed and credenza. Above the credenza, the architect’s inventiveness of concealing clothing rails behind the timber beams remains intact. Seamless joinery under the loft stairs houses a murphy bed and television. The window seat conceals air-conditioning and can be utilised as a bed for a fifth guest.
Coveting a quiet, contemplative setting, the bespoke elements are devised entirely from blackened steel and stained oak. Reverse cut-away handles, soft folded edges, deep shadow lines, perforations and concealed illumination combine to create a noteworthy sensory experience.
