Rooftop Hut Adapts Rural Garden Shed | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - Feed https://dornob.com Architecture, Interior and Furniture Design Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Urban Sanctuary: Rooftop Hut Adapts Rural Garden Shed https://dornob.com/urban-sanctuary-rooftop-hut-reinvents-the-garden-shed/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:00:41 +0000 http://dornob.com/?p=36778 The innovation is not in the design, materials or systems, but in the location: HUT Architecture has transplanted a typology - the suburban garden shed - from its rural setting to the city center (in this case: London)."With a sliding glass roof, solar panels, wood-burning stove and sheep’s wool insulation

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The innovation is not in the design, materials or systems, but in the location: HUT Architecture has transplanted a typology – the suburban garden shed – from its rural setting to the city center (in this case: London).

“With a sliding glass roof, solar panels, wood-burning stove and sheep’s wool insulation the building takes ideas from both hide-away tree houses and the suburban garden shed, providing nothing more or less than is required for an urban sanctuary.”


The result is a clean and modern but cozy and homey space that could be an autonomous micro-dwelling in dense urban areas, or a simple home extension leading out to a rooftop deck.

It borrows from non-urban vernacular, but fits the context of cities quite well – we are used to seeing small outcroppings on the tops of buildings, for general roof access, storage or elevator shafts.

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