Beautiful land deserves a worthy structure.
Welcome to CABN: a pre-designed, high-end solution for wilderness dwelling. The design offers a unique, curated approach that emphasizes architectural quality and craft while fostering a deeper engagement with the outdoors.
An architectural object designed around atmosphere, durability, and life outdoors. Enough structure to live beautifully. Light enough to let the land remain the subject.
It was made for landowners who want to build something worthy of their land — and have never found a starting point equal to that ambition.
CABN No. 01 is a complete architectural design vision, resolved in every detail and ready to bring to your builder, local professionals, and land. Everything from the material palette to the construction logic has been considered, so you don’t have to begin from scratch.
This Design Intent Package helps you move from inspiration to action, crafted to communicate the vision clearly to your builder, designer, and local professionals as you plan next steps. Every site, climate, jurisdiction, and construction team is different, and the final path to permitting and construction must be tailored locally. What we provide is the clarity, the taste, and the design direction to begin the journey with confidence.
We understand that true luxury is about more than opulence; it is about creating meaningful, memorable experiences in nature. Our design provides a sanctuary where you can unwind, recharge, and reconnect with the world around you, while knowing you are being a responsible steward of the land.
Sustainability is not a feature. It is the premise. For the land, and for the generations who will use it after you.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Just under 500 square feet of resolved architectural intention. No gypsum board. No filler. Every surface, every material, every detail selected for longevity, beauty, and connection to the landscape.
The galley kitchen faces eight feet of operable glazing — opening completely to the outdoors for indoor-outdoor cooking, hosting, or a site-built serving and kitchen extension. A separate wall of glazing frames a curated view, its orientation adapted by your builder to your land.
The primary suite sleeps two. A loft above sleeps two more. An integrated desk supports remote work — or convert the space to a mudroom depending on how you use your land. Indoor and outdoor showers, both fully specified, because immersion in nature shouldn't stop at the threshold.
This is not a cabin that makes compromises. It is a structure that makes choices — and every choice was made deliberately.
Your personal hotel suite in nature.
CABN No. 01 — Edition 1 of 250
Glazing
Over thirty-two linear feet of wood-framed glazing. Sixteen feet of floor-to-ceiling glass flanking the galley kitchen, with operable patio doors opening the interior completely to the outdoors — designed for indoor-outdoor cooking, hosting, and landscape connection.
Materiality
Weathered corten steel exterior. Blackened steel-faced millwork and accents. High-grade UV plywood interior finish. Hardy hemlock natural wood soffits. Corrugated metal roofing. No gypsum board. No toxic finishes. No offgassing. Built for healthy living in harmony with nature.
Living
Wood-burning or bioethanol fireplace in primary sleeping quarters. Hotel-quality bedroom suite sleeping two. Dynamic loft above the entry foyer sleeping two more. Integrated millwork desk for remote work — or adapt to a mudroom for working land. Dual-zone ductless mini-split conditioning.
Kitchen
The largest indoor-outdoor galley kitchen in any comparable structure. Convection microwave oven, induction range, 13+ cu. ft. refrigerator and freezer, and ample storage. Designed for serious use — not the afterthought of most cabin plans. Opens to the landscape via eight feet of operable glazing for site-built outdoor serving or kitchen extensions.
Outdoor living
Indoor and outdoor shower with integrated privacy screens — for full immersion in the landscape. Breezeway opening supports a variety of decking and adjoining spatial options. Integrated rolling shades for all floor-to-ceiling glazing. The boundary between inside and outside is intentionally dissolved.
Specified fixtures
Use our suggested finishings or pick your own. The choice is yours. Hand this page to a contractor on Monday and start pricing.
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A letter from the founder
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On scope and application
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How to use this document
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Where wilderness meets luxury
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Live with nature: a design philosophy committed to land stewardship
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Design overview: unparalleled design
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Curated specificity: an exercise in craftsmanship
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Materiality: material selection guide
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Feature highlights
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Builder checklist
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Frequently asked questions
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Design intent drawings
Fourteen sheets across ten drawing types. Every one produced to the standard of a full architectural engagement — because that is exactly what this is.
Designed from experience.
Justin Chetty is a designer and founder of CABN. He holds a Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University, where his education was shaped by the Atlantic Canadian design culture associated with the tutelage of Brian MacKay-Lyons and Omar Gandhi — a tradition known for restraint, craft, landscape, and the careful meeting of building and place. His experience spans high-end residential design, Swiss practice, and work with Lake|Flato Architects. His project experience includes landscapes such as Joshua Tree, Marfa, the Rocky Mountains, Jackson Hole, upstate New York, Vancouver Island, and Muskoka. Across these places, a single question kept returning: why is so much extraordinary land met with buildings that are too large, too loud, and too rarely used? CABN No. 01 is a response: a compact architectural object designed around atmosphere, durability, and life outdoors. Enough structure to live beautifully. Light enough to let the land remain the subject. Shaped by restraint, material clarity, and a deep respect for place.
"Nothing is more sustainable than beauty — because what is truly valued is preserved, maintained, and kept."
— Justin Chetty, Founder
A 50-page architectural design document. Photorealistic renderings. Construction-grade drawings. Material selection guide. Builder checklist. Limited to 250 editions globally. Each edition is individually numbered and watermarked.
Each edition is personally reviewed and released by the founder. Following payment, your numbered Design Intent Package will be delivered to the email used at checkout within 72 hours.
This is a Design Intent Package. It is not a stamped, engineered, or permit-ready construction document. Consult a licensed architect or engineer in your jurisdiction for permit submission and structural adaptation. All sales are final. Personal use license only — no resale, redistribution, or transfer permitted.
No. CABN No. 01 is a Design Intent Package. It contains construction-grade drawings produced by an architect with formal training at one of North America's most respected residential design firms — but it is not stamped, engineered, or submitted for permit. You will need a local architect or engineer to adapt and stamp drawings for your jurisdiction. This document gives them an extraordinary head start — and saves you months of early-phase fees.
A complete design brief. Dimensioned floor plans, elevations, sections, interior elevations, a reflected ceiling plan, material selections, a door and window schedule, key details, and a builder checklist. Most contractors will tell you this is more resolved than what they typically receive from early-phase architectural engagements costing many times this price.
Because scarcity is part of the design. CABN No. 01 is a first edition. When 250 editions are placed, it closes permanently. Future models will be released as separate numbered editions. Your edition number is embedded in the document and belongs only to you.
The document is fixed as designed. Modifications for site-specific adaptation — orientation, foundation type, local code compliance — are the responsibility of your local architect or engineer working from this document. The design is intentionally resolved. That specificity is the product.
If you own rural land and have considered building on it but found the process expensive, inaccessible, or aesthetically uninspiring — yes. This document was made for exactly that person. It is the starting point that has not existed until now.
As a high-resolution numbered PDF, delivered personally by the founder. Each edition is individually reviewed before release. Your package will be delivered to the email used at checkout within 72 hours of purchase. No shipping. No waiting beyond that window. The document is yours — numbered, watermarked, and issued exclusively to you.
Just under 500 square feet — and that is a deliberate position, not a constraint. This is not a tiny home. It is a precisely resolved suite: a full galley kitchen, primary sleeping quarters with fireplace, loft guest sleeping, indoor and outdoor shower, integrated desk, and over thirty-two feet of glazing connecting every room to the landscape. The scale is intentional. Structures that are too large get visited once or twice a year and rot. Structures that are this resolved get used — and because they get used, they endure.
Design intent → feasibility confirmation → early pricing with a builder → local architect or engineer adaptation → permit-ready documents → construction. This package is your first step. Everything that follows is clearer, faster, and less expensive because of it.