Featured in over 50 international design and architecture publications and exhibitions in 2020-2022, the Meteorite house introduced radically new forms to wood architecture using digital manufacturing. The house, designed by Ateljé Sotamaa, is a 63m2 residential building made of 272 pieces of cross-laminated timber (CLT). The inside of this 12-meters high building is five open interconnected rooms that integrate with the surrounding landscape.

Building details: 

• Experimental shape for a residential wood construction

• 63m2 and 700 cubic meters, the interior spaces connect to a 10 meters deep void 

• Digital manufacturing technology: the house is made of 272 pieces of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)

• New “misfit” design strategy that creates an insulating air space between inner and outer layer. (No other insulation is used, even if the house is located in one of the coldest areas in Finland.)

• Electric glass windows that heat the space

• Wooden bathroom 

• A 50m2 "in-between space" — a modern attic