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Preliminary Sauna Designs

Summer 2025

Where size dictates, here are three ways to make a small room. The first: an arched roof with a great three-quarter round window; the second: a shed with a large overhang; and the third: an octagon, benches at the angles.

All three carry a similar section typical of sauna architecture: a stove, a lower bench and an upper one; clad in cedar. For optimal sauna: get feet above the rocks.

Preliminary drawings. Not for construction.

Sauna study in graphite and watercolour — side, front and section. The front is a shingled arch enclosing a large dark circular window, under a standing seam metal roof, with a figure seated on the bench inside.
The arched sauna
Sauna study with a single-pitch roof and a clerestory band of windows, set against a drawn mountain and pine background, with the plan below washed in red at the walls.
The shed-roofed sauna
Sauna study of a small hipped-roof pavilion, shown in elevation, section with a seated figure at the upper bench, and an octagonal plan with shelves at the corners.
The octagonal sauna