The Pole House is a year round cottage designed for a couple and their son on a heavily wooded site in the Manitoba Interlake, two and a half hours North of Winnipeg. The cottage lot, obtained through the provincial cottage lot lottery system, has Lake Winnipeg frontage, although a provincial easement limits the cottage?s proximity to the water. 

Courtesy of DIN Projects

Designers: DIN Projects

Location: Manitoba, Canada

Design Team: Neil Minuk, Onalee Minuk, Kyle Janzen, Ryan Marques, Simon Statkewich

Area: 92.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Courtesy of DIN Projects

Structural Engineer: WOLFROM Engineering LTD.
Courtesy of DIN Projects

The Pole House is a year round cottage designed for a couple and their son on a heavily wooded site in the Manitoba Interlake, two and a half hours North of Winnipeg. The cottage lot, obtained through the provincial cottage lot lottery system, has Lake Winnipeg frontage, although a provincial easement limits the cottage?s proximity to the water. 

Site Plan

The site?s geology is limestone bedrock covered by a shallow layer of overburden. The low profile of this landscape combined with the porous nature of the overburden results in an extremely high water table on the site. This condition necessitated a unique, dock-li...