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Salt Siida Nomadic Hostel

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Sml Studio Architecture Inc.

Unit 15 , 1 New Tannery Way , London , SE1 5WS , United Kingdom

These two words: nomadic and shelter, reflect the very needs of the people from Nordic traditions. The intervention is to create a very basic shelter for fire, sleep and meetings. Timber boxes are stacked sequentially to form a sleeping cabin. A series of timber boxes, designed to the dimensions of a comfortable area for sleeping and seating, are stacked around the fire as a sleeping shelter, opening new possibilities of gathering and living. Through combining different box sizes the interior space becomes vivid and appropriable, yet some of the levels are more suitable to serve as benches or chairs. While the building is meant to be temporary, it is easy to transport, expand or mass produce; not only hosting nomads but being nomadic itself.