Native Narrative

Thank you to L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui for featuring our Learning Center projects in the Philippines. We're honoured to be included alongside other thoughtful work.

Nearly eight years later, it’s meaningful to see this project appreciated by such a respected publication.

Warm thanks from all of us at Native Narrative, Sheryl Lynn Foundation, and Rural Development Initiatives Leyte.

A year and a half ago, we started a new project on a stunning coastal site in Southern Denmark. It includes three interconnected houses from 1890, 1920, and 1975.

We now live here and are gradually renovating these spaces into our ideal family home, an open-air sauna showroom, an office, and a workshop.

The site has only been inhabited by one previous family who's grandfather arrived by boat from Sweden, worked on the fields and built a 10sqm house in 1890.

We feel blessed to be looking after this place and doing our best to improve it while we are here.

We built a bespoke version of our Original Scandinavian Sauna for Endorfin, a company focused on hot & cold therapy and mobility exercises in Ireland and decided to make a film about them, the sauna and the stunning context in which they carry out their work.

There really is something special about seeking out new places in nature and to be able to enjoy these in a completely different way using a mobile sauna. We often say that mobility means freedom, because it really does.

I really like to thank the following people for making it happen:

Film photography (DSLR & Drone): Sean Breithaupt

Film Editing & Art sparring: Schnack Krog & Jakob Gate

Sound design: Jonas Schnack Krog

Music: Nordic Sunrise (Alpha Drone 8Hz) - Bruce Brus

Brief & Art Direction: Jakob Gate (Scandinavian Sauna)

Models: Daryl Swift, Ruth Walsh, Eoghan Casey, Lauren McGrath, Jenny Mulcahy, Cillian Bonnar, Yvonne Stapleton

It would mean a lot if anyone would like to share the film via this link:

please copy paste below:

Hot & Cold therapy - Scandinavian Sauna X Endorfin in Ireland Mobility Means Freedom. Scandinavian Sauna proudly offers architecturally designed, bespoke handcrafted saunas that are fully mobile. Our saunas have created...

https://www.cafx.dk/event/den-farlige-gade-ii-manila-in-the-claws-of-light-en This could be a photo from one of our construction sites but it's a still from the wonderful "Manila In The Claws Of Light" by Lino Brocka which we are delighted to be giving an introduction to along with a short presentation of our built work in the Philippines.

Event at Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Cinemateket monday 19.00 October 10 Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen, Denmark

more info below:
https://www.cafx.dk/event/den-farlige-gade-ii-manila-in-the-claws-of-light-en

This could be a photo of one of our construction sites but it's a still from the wonderful "Manila In The Claws Of Light" by Lino Brocka which we are delighted to be giving an introduction to along with a short presentation of our built work in the Philippines.

Event at Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Cinemateket monday 19.00 October 10 Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen, Denmark

more info below:
https://www.cafx.dk/event/den-farlige-gade-ii-manila-in-the-claws-of-light-en

Thank you for the Scandinavian Sauna article!

https://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/living/misc-living/scandinavian-mobile-sauna/

Scandinavian Mobile Sauna