"It's simple, yet it's expressive,” Scardulla says. “We don't like excesses. We don't like when you enter a space, and everything is immediately declared, everything is clear. We like discovery and complexity. That's why we love that you get there and you get to the door, and you have one perception, then you enter and get another, step down, and have a new perception, and so on. You take the bed down and get a new perception again." Photo 1 of 13 in A Tiny Off-Grid Cabin in Remote Italy Is as Easy to Take Apart as It Was to Build from The 10 Teeniest Tiny Homes of 2023

A Tiny Off-Grid Cabin in Remote Italy Is as Easy to Take Apart as It Was to Build

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Situated in an old mountain village in Italy, the Hermitage is a 130-square-foot off-grid cabin made entirely of okoumé plywood. Llabb designed the retreat as a prototype that can easily be built in other remote locations. Here, it blends with fall colors as fog in the Trebbia Valley below rises. A corrugated metal sheet with two photovoltaic panels top the volume and power interior lights and electrical outlets.