Etnika Signature · glass house

A glass house
without end.

Our signature house is a glass volume on a steel frame. One long panoramic facade wraps back in glass at both ends, with sliding sections opening the interior to the landscape. We first called it Anantara, a word for without end. The name stuck to the feeling.

48 m²floor area
12 × 4 mfootprint
3 roomsliving · bed · bath
Year-roundwith fireplace

Signature seen from above among trees, sky and treeline reflected in the glass

Interactive model

See Signature from every side.

Drag to rotate the house and explore how its long glass facade, glazed returns, timber walls and compact footprint work together.

Rotatable exterior view of the Etnika Signature glass house

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Exterior design

A house that borrows its colour from the site.

The Signature is designed to disappear into its surroundings rather than compete with them. Its long panoramic facade and glazed returns reach from floor to roof, specified anywhere from clear to fully mirrored. Clear glass opens the house to a forest or a shoreline. Mirrored glass returns the landscape to itself, which is why a Signature also works on an urban plot.

The structure is a modular blend of heavy and light steel framing. It gives the house its constructive simplicity: a thin roof plane, slender posts, and no visual weight where none is needed. The short ends and the service core are clad in thermo-treated wood or metal, chosen to weather in harmony with the place.

At 48 m² on a 12 × 4 m footprint, the house arrives as a complete module and rests on point foundations, so the ground beneath it is left largely as it was.

Signature with timber cladding on a gravel bed, the sea behind it

Signature seen from the side between trees, glass reflecting the garden — Mirrored glass · garden

Signature with dark timber cladding in snow at blue hour — Timber facade · dusk

Signature with a wooden wall section and two deck chairs on white gravel — Terrace · summer

Interior design

Spacious because the walls are missing.

Every Signature feels larger than its 48 m² because the glass walls hand the room over to the landscape. The plan is simple: an open kitchen and living room along the long side, a bedroom at one end, and a bathroom behind it. Nothing in between interrupts the view.

The finishes are few and chosen to last. Natural oak on the floor and on the inside wall panels, ceramic tile and quality sanitary fittings in the bathroom, and built-in furniture where it saves space. In the living room a fireplace gives the extra warmth that makes cold, dark evenings the best part of the year.

Read about our design approach

Inside a Signature in winter: a wood stove burning, a sofa and a lamp, snow beyond the glass

Specification

Designed in Estonia. Delivered worldwide.

Each house is configured for its site. These are the fixed points; the glass, the cladding and the interior palette are yours to choose.

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Floor area: 48 m²
Footprint: 12 × 4 m
Structure: Modular frame of heavy and light steel
Facade: Full-height glass, clear to mirrored · thermo-treated wood or metal cladding
Openings: Sliding sections in the glass facades
Interior: Natural oak floors and wall panels · ceramic tile · built-in furniture
Rooms: Open kitchen and living room · bedroom · bathroom with toilet
Heat: Fireplace in the living room
Delivery: Complete module, produced in Estonia

After dark

A lantern in the landscape.

At night the glass reverses. The house glows, the land goes dark around it, and the fire does the rest.

Signature glowing warmly in a snowy landscape after dark

Signature glass facade glowing warmly against a vivid evening sky

Signature glass house illuminated against the deep blue evening sky

Signature illuminated at night with its full glass facade visible

A glass housewithout end.