Aerial view of a lakehouse with dark metal gabled roofs and wood siding
An aerial site precedent for a contemporary lakehouse featuring gabled roof pavilions and horizontal wood cladding that integrates into a densely wooded waterfront landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The central glazed breezeway creates a transparent threshold right through the center of the massing.
Materials
- wood
- standing-seam-metal
- stone
- glass
Visual identifiers
- metal-pitched-roof
- lakeside-setting
- timber-siding
- autumn-foliage
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- residential
- rustic-modern
Visual tags
- lakehouse
- pitched-roof
- residential
- contextual
- nature-integrated
- Geometry
- Low-slung pavilions with intersecting pitched metal roofs connected by a glazed link, oriented toward the lake.
- Facade system
- Horizontal wood siding with broad ribbon windows and stone base foundations.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with concrete foundation and stone retaining elements.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, sprawling horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused twilight or early morning overcast sky casting gentle light over the autumn foliage and lake.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, secluded, and harmonized with the natural woodland and seasonal colors.
- Environmental context
- Lakeside forested site surrounded by dense deciduous trees showing vibrant autumn colors.
- Spatial experience
- The house reads as a collection of grounded volumes embedded deeply within the sloping, tree-heavy lakeside topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical dual pavilions tied together by a central recessed entry axis perpendicular to the shoreline.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist residential architecture
- Program
- Waterfront single-family residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, standing-seam-metal, stone, glass
- Visual identifiers
- metal-pitched-roof, lakeside-setting, timber-siding, autumn-foliage
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, residential, rustic-modern
- Visual tags
- lakehouse, pitched-roof, residential, contextual, nature-integrated
- Geometry
- Low-slung pavilions with intersecting pitched metal roofs connected by a glazed link, oriented toward the lake.
- Facade system
- Horizontal wood siding with broad ribbon windows and stone base foundations.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with concrete foundation and stone retaining elements.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, sprawling horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused twilight or early morning overcast sky casting gentle light over the autumn foliage and lake.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, secluded, and harmonized with the natural woodland and seasonal colors.
- Environmental context
- Lakeside forested site surrounded by dense deciduous trees showing vibrant autumn colors.
- Spatial experience
- The house reads as a collection of grounded volumes embedded deeply within the sloping, tree-heavy lakeside topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical dual pavilions tied together by a central recessed entry axis perpendicular to the shoreline.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist residential architecture
- Program
- Waterfront single-family residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture