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The Mountain Refuge® is a tiny-house designed by Italian architects Massimo Gnocchi and Paolo Danesi.

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Go off-grid

The Mountain Refuge is a space where you can enjoy the most beautiful places in the world. That’s why we have designed a smart, fully off-grid solution able to provide hot water, electricity, heat and waste disposal.

Refuge model starting from

€84.000 + VAT

Modular
A prefabricated wood construction system allows the structure to be modular, cutting down costs and times, while giving flexibility on the interior spaces.

Sustainable
The Mountain Refuge is almost entirely built in our warehouse, using premium and natural materials in a sustainable process, minimizing waste, transport complexitiy and on-site labor.

We challenge extreme locations
Hard to reach site? No worries, we can bring the Mountain Refuge to the most challenging, beautiful locations. Your dream is our dream.

General dimensions

Floor plan size: 4.80 m x 7.55 m excluding the outdoor deck, the size of which may vary according to the client’s site

Gross size (including roof eaves): 6.90 m x 9.60 m x H5.60 m

Gross floor plan surface: 28.50 sqm

Gross volume: 100.60 cbm

Make it your own

We offer a range of customizations to make the Mountain Refuge your own.

We thought about everything

Our cabin is a complete turnkey solution, from foundations to transport and assembly.

Because we spent a lot of time designing to minimize on-site work and logistics, you can rest easy: the price you get will get you a Mountain Refuge, not an Euro more.

A small space doesn't mean discomfort

In our philosophy, small spaces must not become a swiss knife. Yet we wanted to make sure everything is there.

You won't get a tiny-house kitchen or an uncomfortable bathroom. You'll get a normal kitchen, a normal fridge, a normal bed, a normal bathroom. Everything comes with premium equipment and furniture.

We help the client from the beginning to turnkey

The Mountain Refuge is currently available in Europe and North America. We are currently working for Australia and New Zealand.

Save time

Manufacturing time: 3 months

Installation time: 1-2 weeks

Save energy

"A" energy rating

Solar panels

Off-grid solutions

Save resources

Clean construction using natural and renewable materials

Avoid extra costs

Price closed upon signing: no surprises

Browse our gallery

Check out yourself how we designed a space caring about every minor detail.

Meet the architects

Massimo and Paolo meet during their studies, sharing the same passion and philosophy that will lead in collaborating together on several projects including co-founding The Mountain Refuge, which will become one of the most popular prefab tiny-home designs, and the production of which kicks off in Fall 2021 in Europe.

Official manufacturers and sellers
Octagon Trade

OCTAGON TRADE, SL is a specialist in delivering premium modern homes designed around our clients’ needs, tastes and budgets. We work closely with you to bring your vision to life and create spaces whose quality and style speak for themselves.

Europe

Elemental Studio

Meticulously architected, our bespoke dwellings are designed to make one statement: luxury that dissolves into the natural grandeur. Our curated properties are awakened to the wild human spirit, to a poetic connection between humanity and wilderness, to a sense of our smallness in the presence of nature’s grandness, to respect for all life, to access to the unimaginable beauty for all.

North America

Discover the Mountain Refuge® Satellite

One module of The Mountain Refuge becomes your off-grid suite. Surrounded by nature.

Human Sustainability Report

The way spaces are built and designed can either impact humans’ wellbeing in a good way, or in a bad way. It all occurs unconsciously by some complex interactions between the environment and our nervous system, yet the effects are substantial both in the short and in the long term.

 

The Human Sustainability Report provides a detailed analysis of this interaction, shedding light on the perceptual qualities of a space and its potential to influence our health and behavior.

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