A cedar walkway leads from the roof’s access point to the sauna, with native wildflowers on either side.
The sauna sits at the far end of the rooftop meadow. It’s done in cedar, which got the shou sugi ban treatment from the homeowners and their friends.
Inside the sauna structure.
“From the sauna bench, the view back to the rooftop feels like you have been transported out of the city and into a magical forest,” according to the architects.
The team sourced native plants from Landscape Alternatives, including, Steffanie wrote: “palm sedge, switchgrass, Indian grass, blue joint grass, columbine, shorts aster, prairie wild onion, common milkweed," and much more.
The sauna in winter.