Nolla® Cabin
NESTE COMPANY
2019
Concept
Product Design
Art Direction
With their Journey to Zero campaign, launching the summer of 2018, Finnish renewable energy company Neste was looking for ways to build a world with minimal emissions. The first lap of this journey, Nolla® Cabin, was a challenge to design and demonstrate a way of living that has a minimal carbon footprint in every aspect.
The cabin structures have been fastened together with screws, so it can be taken apart and put back together like a puzzle. The pedestals are adjustable, so that the cabin can adapt to different kinds of terrain. In essence, there are no special parts used in building it – a replica of any part can be made from scratch by anyone, all they need is timber.
The culture of repairing things is disappearing, and we’re quick to buy a replacement rather than fix what we already have – but that’s not a very sustainable way of living. We find modern-day helplessness and the inability to make things with our own hands slightly scary, so we wanted to make the cabin easily repairable and thus give it an infinite number of life cycles.
“I wanted to challenge people to try spending time outdoors with less. Less things, less space and less distractions and essentially leaving a smaller footprint. The Nolla cabin does just that.”
— Robin Falck
