Align completes off-grid timber and steel cabin on tiny Tasmanian island
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Jon Astbury
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Summary
Australian studio Align has completed Picnic Island Cabin, a holiday retreat on the edge of a tiny one-hectare island in Tasmania's Freycinet Peninsula. The off-grid cabin is clad in spotted gum timber and steel, and serves as both an eco-resort and a protected sanctuary for seabirds.
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The cabin sits on the privately owned Picnic Island on Tasmania's Freycinet Peninsula, which has an area of just one hectare and operates as both an off-grid eco-resort and a protected sanctuary for seabirds
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