Rolling Huts: Low-Impact RV

Whether you’re a hiker, mountain biker or cross-country skier, the Rolling Huts, located in Washington’s Methow Valley, are the perfect accommodation. The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. It had been a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley. The concept was to have simple mobile structures able to roll into and set up on the site, yet to provide clearance for nature below each hut. Rolling Huts are sustainable in other ways too. The roof is a butterfly roof for water conservation and the large wheels lift the structures high above the meadow, keeping the footprint of each hut to the barest minimum, making for a low-tech and low-impact design. Tom Kundig of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen performed the architecture.