{"id":752355,"date":"2026-04-25T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:37:22","slug":"studio-bucky-cloaks-cucu-cabin-in-ireland-with-red-shingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752355\/","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":3,"featured_media":752356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,115690,1033,171,119,200004,5855,309629,25017,92915,92916,245024,127283,309630,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-752355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-cabins","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ireland","tag-off-grid-architecture","tag-red","tag-red-buildings","tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-sectionexclusives","tag-shingles","tag-studio-bucky","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116465857414058690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}