Situated on the Dutch island of Texel, the Holiday Home by Orange Architects is a compact, 70-square-meter cabin designed to offer a flexible and sustainable retreat close to nature. Designed for a client who wanted to maximize the experience of their vacation, the house prioritizes social spaces during the day and adapts to become private sleeping quarters at night through a clever system of rotating panels and doors. The exterior is a striking, sculptural volume clad in black-stained timber, which allows the house to recede into its woodland surroundings while creating a bold aesthetic. In contrast, the interior features a bright and warm material palette of light-colored birch plywood, creating a seamless and spacious feeling throughout the compact home. During the day, the ground-floor living area, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom can be opened to create a single, fluid space. Large, five-meter-high glass windows and doors on the southern façade connect the living area to a covered terrace and the surrounding forest, dissolving the boundary between indoors and out. At night, movable wooden panels can be rotated or closed to create private rooms, including an en-suite bathroom. A lofted level provides additional sleeping or living space. The design of the Holiday Home was guided by sustainability from the outset. The structure was prefabricated by a contractor on the mainland to minimize on-site waste and construction time. The use of all-electric systems, including rooftop solar panels, concrete floors for thermal mass, and a well-insulated envelope, ensures the home is fossil-fuel-free and energy efficient. Project credits Architecture: Orange Architects (Patrick Meijers, Jeroen Schipper, Elena Staskute) Photographer: Sebastian van Damme Contractor: Cor Koper Bouwbedrijf Location: De Koog, Texel, Netherlands