SaunaScape

Czech architecture firm H3T has designed two new mobile saunas that you can take with you.

In October of 2010, they built a transportable sauna. Looking at the photos on their website, it appears large enough to hold eight very good friends. The sauna was built on a used car trailer from plywood and plastic panels for the long walls and roof. When finished, you can tow it away with you. The architects do not recommend using the sauna while driving.

In February 2011, they created a new transportable sauna design more suited to the urban european: The Bike Sauna. This two person sauna is small enough to be towed behind a bicycle.

Both are heated with wood-fired stoves. For more inspiration, see their Floating Sauna and Flying Sauna. H3T has more action photos on their Facebook page.

Czech architecture firm H3T has designed two new mobile saunas that you can take with you. In October of 2010, they built a transportable sauna. Looking at the photos on...

It seems that a rite of passage among budding Czech architecture firms is to build a sauna on an abandoned concrete structure above a body of water. This one was built in April by H3T Architects.

The structure it hangs from is a flood-control weir that was decommissioned in 1972. To access the sauna, you need to travel by boat underneath of the sauna, and enter it from the bottom. In their notes, the architects caution that the currents in the area are quite strong.

Unfortunately, the sauna is probably already gone. H3T expected it to last about two weeks. More photos are available of it at Planet Mag.

This is the second sauna designed by H3T. In October 2009 they built a floating sauna on a lake in Podebrady.

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It seems that a rite of passage among budding Czech architecture firms is to build a sauna on an abandoned concrete structure above a body of water. This one was...

After a promise made during a presentation at a recent Pecha Kucha night in Prague, one group of presenters, mjölk architekti, an architecture firm returned to their hometown of Liberec and built a sauna in the middle of the night on an abandoned concrete piling near a public beach.

A nearby cafe operates the sauna, selling firewood for the stove, and keeping the keys for the sauna and a small rowboat.

The architect’s say they built the sauna “to highlight the possibility of unlimited cultivation of public spaces and public life” and show that with an idea, passion for a good cause and some money, anything is possible.

The sauna was built without permits, and all planning was done in secret. The local government has not decided how to handle this yet.

Pecha Kucha Nights were devised by a group of designers in Tokyo as a network and sharing method for creative ideas. Each presenter shows a presentation made of 20 slides that advance automatically after 20 seconds.

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After a promise made during a presentation at a recent Pecha Kucha night in Prague, one group of presenters, mjölk architekti, an architecture firm returned to their hometown of Liberec...