Cabins

The word cabin is evocative of the frontier and a distinct North American vernacular for many.  Stacked pine logs, small windows, and a crooked chimney, with snowshoes, tools and cooking utensils on the wall.



This image is of a typical cabin, but there are other types. Each type of frontier landscape had at one point, a type of frontier housing associated with the pioneers that settled there.

Driven by necessity, cabins were built using some imported and some local materials.  Pioneers exploited the available resources to the fullest, because for many, frontier life was extremely taxing. 

My aim is not to recreate a cabin that emulates any traditional type.  Rather, it is to create a new cabin type, for a new frontier:  Detroit.  For each element of traditional cabin life, it is likely that there will be a parallel element associated with the Detroit pioneer cabin type.