A Finnish architect with hopes for Olympic gold has unveiled her designs for a new log villa whose inspiration she says came to her during training for this year’s games in Tokyo.

Finland-based manufacturer HONKA is now offering an Olympic windsurfer’s designs for a cottage as part of a series of cost-efficient log villas tailored to cold archipelago environments. 

Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén is a practicing architect and Olympic silver medalist who previously served as standard-bearer for her country during the 2016 opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. Her new Tyrsky model evokes waves at crest breaking onto shore in the seaside fishing villages where she had trained.

The 1.5-story cabin is packed with high ceilings, a built-in sauna, and multipurpose mezzanine built from timber logs that enhance an ecological focus that has defined Petäjä-Sirén’s previous work. Two and three-bedroom versions of the home are available that total 93 and 106 square meters in size respectively. 

“The Tyrsky model is human in scale. The steep gable roof with its fairly narrow frame depth evokes the houses in traditional fishers’ villages. I have gone to sea all my life, and I have always seen the archipelago landscape from the sea,” Petäjä-Sirén shares.

The 37-year-old has appeared in three Olympic games and has successfully been able to parlay her considerable acclaim into a similar model for HONKA called Tuuli that was released last year.

Petäjä-Sirén will participate in this year’s RS:X competitions along with sailors from thirty-one other nations when the games kick off next weekend in Tokyo.