{"id":627925,"date":"2026-04-25T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:08:13","slug":"studio-bucky-cloaks-cucu-cabin-in-ireland-with-red-shingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627925\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Bucky cloaks Cucu cabin in Ireland with red shingles"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York practice Studio Bucky<\/a> has nestled an off-grid cabin<\/a> among trees in rural Westmeath, Ireland<\/a>, shrouding its tapered exterior in red-stained shingles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Cucu, Studio Bucky<\/a> designed the compact dwelling for Sams\u00fa<\/a>, a cabin rental brand that aims to provide unique retreats in the Irish countryside.<\/p>\n

Red-stained shingles cloak the cabin’s slanted walls, giving it a distinctive appearance intended to recall agricultural buildings and metal roofs found in the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n

\"CucuStudio Bucky has designed a holiday cabin named Cucu\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The goal was to create a small structure with a clear sense of personality and wonder,” Studio Bucky<\/a> founder Alexander Buckeridge told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The client wanted something that stood apart from the wave of standardised cabin hospitality, so we focused on a design that responds to its landscape rather than simply sitting within it,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The building is designed to slow you down, catch your eye from a distance, and become more introspective once inside.”<\/p>\n

\"RedRed-stained shingles clad the exterior of the cabin<\/p>\n

Inside, the cabin’s square floor plan comprises a seating nook, a kitchen, a log-burning stove and a toilet and shower room closed off behind a sliding door.<\/p>\n

A ladder leads to a sleeping area on a mezzanine level above, which features a circular window overlooking the surrounding nature.<\/p>\n

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Pops of red in the window frames and tiling add colour to Cucu’s plywood-lined interior, and a custom roll-top copper bath sits next to the cabin on the outdoor deck.<\/p>\n

Buckeridge drew upon traditional tower houses in Ireland when designing the compact, vertical layout.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorCucu features red tiles and plywood boards inside<\/p>\n

“Tower houses are a distinct Irish building type, scattered across rural landscapes,” said Buckeridge. “We were interested in their verticality and the sense of inhabiting height.”<\/p>\n

“In Cucu, that idea becomes more intimate, almost like sleeping in the sky,” he continued. “It’s not a literal reference, but a subtle echo of that tradition, translated into a contemporary form with different materials, while remaining grounded in place.”<\/p>\n

\"Plywood-linedA bedroom on a mezzanine level has a circular window<\/p>\n

Cucu functions fully off-grid, powered by solar energy. It also incorporates a compost eco-toilet.<\/p>\n

Buckeridge, who hails from Ireland, founded Studio Bucky in 2024. The studio works across architecture, interiors and furniture sectors and has previously designed a\u00a0furniture collection informed by Irish portal tombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other cabins recently featured on Dezeen include a pale green-painted timber building in the Netherlands<\/a> and a maroon structure built to replace a prefab home in Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Jasmine Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York practice Studio Bucky has nestled an off-grid cabin among trees in rural Westmeath, Ireland, shrouding its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,71079,48,356,75,23285,138398,1439,195747,1242,49626,49627,185048,80986,235303],"class_list":{"0":"post-627925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-cabins","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-off-grid-architecture","18":"tag-red","19":"tag-red-buildings","20":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","21":"tag-sectionall","22":"tag-sectionarchitecture","23":"tag-sectionexclusives","24":"tag-shingles","25":"tag-studio-bucky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}