Just in time for duvet season, a new series of A-frame cabins has opened on the grounds of The Vagar, a mountaintop hideaway outside the 16th-century town of Belmonte, in central Portugal. The Abrigos de Montanha, or ‘mountain shelters’, were designed by nearby practice Filipe Pina Arquitectura in the image of traditional shepherds’ shelters, or choças. They were built in three untamed locations across the property’s 250 hectares, oriented toward the lush Cova da Beira valley with views over the Serra da Estrela, continental Portugal’s highest mountain.

Pina’s triangular prisms are simple and clean-lined, with a bathroom and storage volume placed discreetly between the living and sleeping areas. He worked with durable, sustainable woods known to age gracefully, and designed in a compact, modular format that he says can be replicated anywhere — with or without the terrace hot tub. With their pointed profiles faced in glass, the cabins both mirror and frame the natural context while immersing visitors in the wild landscape. Flooded with light in the day and open to starry skies at night, they can function as work retreats or holiday suites free from digital distractions.

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