Couple Buy their Own Island and Build Two Stunning off-Grid Cabins

Finnish designers Aleksi Hautamäki and Milla Selkimaki have recently completed the first stage of their two stage island project.

Dubbed Project Ö, the duo have successfully built two off-grid cabins on their very own private island.

They spent five years searching for the ideal island, and when the opportunity arose to purchase the 200 m by 100 m (656 ft by 328 ft) triangular island, located at the edge of the Archipelago National Park in Southwest Finland, they jumped at the chance.

“After 5 years of intensive searching, a perfect little island is found,” says Hautamäki and Selkimaki. “The island itself is completely untouched and intact, there has never been any habitation.

It’s allowed to build 400 sq m [4,305 sq ft] on the island with strict rules on the dimensions from the shoreline and between the buildings.”

In order to work with the rocky conditions of the landscape and the strict building rules, the couple came up with an initial design for two self-sustaining timber dwellings that incorporate comfortable interior and outdoor living zones, a sauna and a workshop.

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