Australian studio Align has completed Picnic Island Cabin, a holiday retreat on the edge of a tiny island in Tasmania , clad in a palette of spotted gum timber and steel . The cabin sits on the privately owned Picnic Island on Tasmania's Freycinet Peninsula, which has an area of just one hectare and operates as both an off-grid eco-resort and a protected sanctuary for seabirds and penguins. Align has completed a holiday retreat on Picnic Island in Tasmania Align was tasked with expanding the island's existing accommodation by adding a 40-square-metre, one-bedroom cabin, which is perched on the southern coast on concrete and steel feet. Given the site's sensitivity, the cabin was entirely prefabricated before being helicoptered onto the site, and designed to Passivhaus principles using materials with low volatile organic compounds (VOCs).…