The cabin is constructed 95 percent of wood, much of which was scraps from local mills. The dark cladding is larch that’s been charred using a Japanese technique called shou sugi ban, which helps repel insect damage, fungi, and fire. The entrance is made of strips of Norwegian pine — students hauled two old hot water boilers to the site and turned them into a 20-foot bathtub, in which they soaked the pine until it was flexible enough to mount.
