Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

Miller Kendrick Architects

SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET
$10K - 50K

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
United Kingdom

TYPE
Commercial › Pop-Up Residential › Private House

The cabin, known as ‘Arthur’s Cave’, was one of eight winning entries for Epic Retreats. The project was part funded by the Welsh Government’s Tourism Product Innovation Fund.

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

Miller Kendrick's design takes its inspiration from the ancient landscape of Wales but utilises modern construction techniques. The structure is a combination of CNC-cut birch plywood ribs and sheathing panels, which act together to form a composite structure.

The structural ribs are comprised of either three or five individual sections of plywood, tightly fitted together using ‘jigsaw’ joints with a high degree of tolerance.

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

As a single internal material, the plywood provides both structure, finish, fixtures and fittings - including a plywood sink and bath.

The faceted envelope is clad in locally- sourced Welsh larch boards stained black, with sheep’s wool insulation part-filling the cavity.

Wherever possible the project has sought to use locally sourced materials. The sheep’s wool insulation is from Ty-Mwar. The green larch cladding is from Esgair Forest who’s saw mill is adjacent to the site in neighbouring village of Machynlleth.

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

The cabin is heated via a small log burner, has hot and cold water, LED lighting powered via photovoltaics and a self composting WC.

The construction of the cabin took four weeks to complete. The build was managed and built by EJ Ryder Ltd. who also assisted in the detailed design and provided expert knowledge of plywood construction and prefabrication techniques.

Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel

The cabin was built with the Burford Farm Project in Shepton Mallet.

The structural engineers were Momentum Engineering, London and the cost consultant was PMP Consultants, Birmingham.


Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel
Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel


Arthur's Cave, Pop-Up Hotel