Finland’s Salamajärvi National Park will soon be home to a cluster of raised wooden cabins, supported among the trees by a single pillar.

Designed by Studio Puisto, and named Niliaitta, the hut is a contemporary version of a traditional cabin used by the Samí people to store food. Guests enter via a long, sloping staircase, designed to give them the sense of leaving their worries on the ground as they ascend into the trees.

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Photography: Marc Goodwin / Archmospheres

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The cabin’s striking raised layout was chosen to reduce its impact on the forest floor – requiring fewer trees to be felled for its construction – as well as give guests a better view over the surrounding landscape.

Interiors are lined with pale wood, with a bed placed directly opposite the hut’s glazed end. There’s also a tiny kitchen area and a shower. The cabin is the first of 25 to be built in the park – which has 60km of hiking trails where visitors might spot forest reindeer. Floating rooms and a sauna are also set to follow.

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