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Project posted by Laird Herbert

Yukon Black Spruce

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Location
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Structure
Hotel
Style
Modern
Each cabin features massive south facing windows do immerse guests in the forest views.
Each cabin features massive south facing windows do immerse guests in the forest views.
Each door is painted a different color to distinguish the cabins.
Each door is painted a different color to distinguish the cabins.
A custom wood fired sauna is build around protruding boulders (those are the benches)
A custom wood fired sauna is build around protruding boulders (those are the benches)
The sauna is scribed into the granite boulders.
The sauna is scribed into the granite boulders.
The rocky landscape
The rocky landscape
Tiled shower
Tiled shower
Lights for the near complete darkness of winter.
Lights for the near complete darkness of winter.
The orange door and yellow door cabin the depths of a Northern winter.
The orange door and yellow door cabin the depths of a Northern winter.
The black line leading to the cabin is an insulated utiliduct, which carries the water and sewer lines.
The black line leading to the cabin is an insulated utiliduct, which carries the water and sewer lines.

Credits

From Laird Herbert

Yukon Black Spruce is one of Canada's first landscape hotels. Built in Northern Canada, in the Yukon, the hotel features four small houses set in the rocky Boreal forest landscape. Each house is clad in local Yukon spruce Shou Sugi-Ban siding, features straw bale insulation in the North walls, interior clay plasters, and low-embodied carbon energy materials such as FSC Fir flooring from British Columbia. In order to preserve the forested landscape, every single building material was carried in on the shoulders of the crew. Because of the extreme -45C climate, the buildings feature R100 insulation in the roof and R60 walls, featuring dense pack cellulose.