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About Nokken
About Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
| Project | NKN-Softshell |
| Architects | Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Nokken |
| Area | 18sqm (195sqft) |
| Outer Dimentions | 4.2m (w) x 4.2m (l) x 4.6m (h) |
| Price | From € 18,950 / $ 22,500 |
| Year | 2024 |
Nokken and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) collaborate on Softshell, a semi-permanent prefab cabin addressing the evolving needs of hospitality and residential markets. Combining architectural innovation with environmental responsibility, Softshell redefines mobile accommodations for eco-resorts, glamping sites, boutique hotels, and beyond. Softshell caters to a global shift toward experiential, eco-friendly travel, offering a low-impact structure that blends harmoniously with its surroundings. The lightweight sustainably sourced timber frame and recyclable canvas, produced in Spain, allow for easy transport and assembly in remote areas.
The design reflects BIG’s expertise, balancing aesthetic elegance with practical versatility, required for temporary use, ensuring the structure meets modern hospitality’s functional and environmental standards. Privacy and comfort are prioritized through modularity and customizability, allowing Softshell to adapt to various climates and terrains. Its innovative approach enhances guest experiences in natural settings, providing the sophistication of permanent architecture with the flexibility of temporary structures.
Softshell’s applications extend beyond hospitality to remote working and residential solutions, offering multifunctional spaces for homeowners seeking garden studios, guest accommodations, or personal retreats. Its modular design supports renewable energy integration, smart amenities, and layout adjustments tailored to diverse needs. A key differentiator is its commitment to sustainability. Constructed with natural, recyclable materials and designed for minimal site impact, Softshell offers an eco-friendly alternative to permanent infrastructure, aligning with the growing demand for responsible tourism. This flexibility makes it a valuable option for operators in sensitive natural areas, combining luxury with conservation.
Nokken’s collaboration with architects at BIG highlights the potential of adaptable architecture, pushing the boundaries of portability, customization, and sustainability. Softshell’s launch signals a new era in retreat hospitality, paving the way for more eco-conscious, innovative, and immersive design solutions. As Nokken continues to expand its Adaptable Architecture Range, the company explores new materials and technologies to advance portability, customization, and environmental responsibility. Softshell marks the start of Nokken’s mission to offer flexible and sustainable solutions that meet the demands of modern living and hospitality.
Description by Nokken
Introducing the NKN-Softshell, a revolutionary approach to eco-friendly hospitality. Designed in collaboration with world-renowned architects BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), this 18sqm (195sqft) softshell structure offers a practical yet striking solution for modern, eco-conscious hospitality.
The base unit includes the essentials: a durable frame, base plate, and canvas, forming a sleek and functional foundation. For those seeking enhanced utility, the optional Upgrade Pack adds a cargo net, ladder, and bedhead—turning this already stunning structure into a true haven for modern travelers.
Perfect for glamping sites, eco-resorts, and boutique accommodations, the NKN-Softshell merges cutting-edge design with practicality. Lightweight yet robust, it provides a statement piece that speaks to sustainability and style.
Own a piece of BIG architecture. Own the future of hospitality.
From € 18,950 / $ 22,500
Stage One
Drawing release for building permits
local territories can require varying levels of information so we recommend a local architect is appointed to liaise with any neccessary building code regulations
10% Reservation deposit
Stage Two
Finalising Order & Start of production
Prior to construction any special requests or custom elements will need to be integrated into the final engineered package required to produce your Nokken Cabin
40% Signing of Contract
Stage Three
Shipping confirmation & ordering transport
At this stage, we recommend your site is landscaped and prepared, ready to receive your new cabin
30% Payment 3 weeks before shipping
Stage Four
Shipment Released
And it’s on its way! Congratulations, soon you’ll take possession of your very own beautiful Nokken.
20% Final Payment
10-12 Weeks Prefab Fabric Cabin Production
Permits & Preparations
All local permits, including the costs, are the responsibility of the client. Nokken will be able to support clients on their projects journey and supply them with the technical drawings and specification documents required.
Please be advised that regulations do differ from country to country and that whilst the Nokken cabins have been created to the utmost levels of habitation certification required, rulings and local planning specifications do change. Nokken also advises contacting and creating a dialog with local planning office to discuss the project in further detail as invariably, the project will require authorisation. Please be aware that permitting confirmation is critical to the delivery date and all legal duties carried out prior to dispatch.
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About Nokken
Nokken came about from a simple idea - If more and more people are looking to live in a natural environment, then it makes perfect sense that people will want to holiday within one too.
Having come from a hospitality architecture and design background, Nathan & James - Nokken’s founders utilised their architectural skill-sets in this field and thus created a product purely for this need.
Welcome to Nokken, what we believe are the most efficient, flexible, modular cabins in the world. Designed for people to love, enjoy, create memories and holiday within. And by coincidence they make pretty awesome homes and workspaces too!
Being focused on these cabin products sitting within a natural, non-urban location it makes sense that they have established a dynamic connection to the environment and therefore harmony with it.
Within a Nokken cabin you can witness the seasons and weather whilst working, sleeping and living.
It represents the emotion from camping as a child, the pure simplicity of participating in nature rather than just being a witness. Fully immersed amongst the stars at night, the sunrise in the morning, the birds call at daybreak, the smell of dew on grass or evening light falling through the trees.
These cabins provide the opportunity to be connected to nature, sleep in a safe beautiful environment and do so practically anywhere in the world.
Designed to experience nature like never before.
Nokken is a truly European company; Architecturally formed in England, styled in Denmark, engineered in Germany and manufactured in Latvia and Portugal. From Autumn 2022 we will also have an outpost in North America and will be able to supply to both the United States and Canada. Our cabins can be shipped whole as true modular forms or on special request panellised for self construction. This allows the possibility for installation in remote locations, on islands or other countries.
The cabins are engineered with CLT frame structures utilising modern building techniques. As with all natural products, they require care and maintenance, however with the appropriate love will go on to last a lifetime.
The cabins are designed with a hospitality setting in mind and as such inhibit low maintenance combined with beautiful, natural and sustainable materials. Elements such as the Larch and Metal external cladding will age gracefully over time.
Nokken fully complies with all main European regulations for travel, retreat and hospitality accommodation and has been designed with both European and North American certification in mind. Local regulations should always be reviewed and confirmed by the client. Any orders placed are subject to any regulatory certification being confirmed prior to delivery.
Our cabins offer a Standard 5 year warranty on structural defects, alongside a 2 year warranty on fixed component parts.
| info@the-nokken.com | |
| Website | https://www.the-nokken.com/ |
About Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
The escalating complexity of the world and the accelerating speed of change exceed any individual’s capacity to comprehend. For architects operating today, the Golden Ratio is no longer the standard - rather, the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are. From a single elegant equation, architects are now held to multidimensional success criteria with almost infinite variables.
Since sustainability is inherently a question of complex systems, circular design, and holistic thinking, no single person holds the solution. As architects and urbanists, we must team with scientists, engineers with biologists, politicians with entrepreneurs, to combine skill sets and perspectives, knowledge and sensibility, to match the complexity of the challenges we face. As future formgivers, we won’t be defined by our individual talents or singular skill sets - but rather by our capacity to pool the skills of the many to give our future form.
BIG has grown organically over the last two decades from a founder, to a family, to a force of 700. Our latest transformation is the BIG LEAP: Bjarke Ingels Group of Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, Planning and Products. A plethora of in-house perspectives allows us to see what none of us would be able to see on our own. The sum of our individual talents becomes our collective creative genius. A small step for each of us becomes a BIG LEAP for all of us.
| Address | Sundkaj 165, 2150, Nordhavn, Copenhagen, DK |
| Phone | +45 7221 7227 |
| cph@big.dk | |
| Website | https://big.dk/ |
NKN-Softshell - Semi-Permanent Prefab Cabin with Fabric Roof and Walls, Allow for Easy Transport and Assembly