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A young couple from Chicago wanted a weekend getaway in the Wisconsin woods, but their budget was 'aggressively small,' says Sebastian Schmaling, of Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects. A traditional cabin with inflexible private rooms surrounding large, common spaces was therefore not an option. The clients and the architects were also conscious of minimizing the footprint in the rural setting: a clearing that marks an old logging road in Muscoda, Wisconsin.