Responding to the owner’s need for space to house visiting friends
and family, the Rolling Huts are several steps above camping, while
remaining low-tech and low-impact in their design. The huts sit lightly
on the site, a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley. The owner
purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing
the landscape return to its natural state. The wheels lift the
structures above the meadow, providing an unobstructed view into nature
and the prospect of the surrounding mountains.
The huts are
grouped as a herd: while each is sited towards a view of the mountains
(and away from the other structures), their proximity unites them. They
evoke Thoreau’s simple cabin in the woods; the structures take second
place to nature. Rental information for the Huts is available at www.rollinghuts.com