This Architect Built a 20m Red Cabin on Her Family's Greek Vineyard - and It's the Antidote to Every Concrete Villa on the Island - Yanko Design

A 20-square-metre prefabricated retreat called the Root Cabin sits in the Greek countryside of Zakynthos between olive groves and vine rows. The cabin was designed by London-based studio Kasawoo and built off-site in Romania, then transported fully prefabricated to the site. The structure is road-legal and designed to be relocatable, reflecting a low-intervention approach. The cabin measures about 2.5 by 8 metres and is positioned to slip gently between agricultural and historical elements of the land. Deep-red timber planks wrap the exterior, with a roofline that echoes the island’s horizon. Inside, plywood lines walls, ceilings, and built-in furniture, creating a cocoon-like space with integrated bed, compact kitchen, sofa, and bookshelves.

"The Root Cabin, designed by London-based studio Kasawoo, is a 20-square-metre prefabricated retreat that challenges the very idea of what a holiday home in Greece should look like. The project is personal. Co-founder Katie Kasabalis owns the land in the village of Vanato, a site that has been in her family for decades and still holds the ruins of her grandmother's old stone house. Together with co-founder Darius Woo, she set out to build something that felt of the place rather than imposed on it."

"Built off-site in Romania and transported to Zakynthos fully prefabricated, the cabin is road-legal and designed to be relocatable, a detail that speaks directly to its low-intervention philosophy. "Nothing is superfluous," the architects told Dezeen. "The project's generosity lies in what it refuses to add." In a part of Greece where sprawling concrete villas are accelerating across the countryside, that kind of restraint is quietly radical."

"The exterior is wrapped in deep-red timber planks, a shade drawn from the historic villas of Zakynthos, and topped with a gently angled roofline that echoes the island's mountainous horizon. It's a structure that has absorbed its context rather than competed with it. Inside, the atmosphere shifts to something warmer and more immediate. Plywood lines the walls, ceilings, and all built-in furniture, creating a near-seamless, cocoon-like interior in which a bed, compact kitchen, sofa, and bookshelves are integrated into the structure."

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