The Lake House / Suyama Peterson Deguchi

The Lake House was conceived as a 21st Century retreat ? an escape from expectations of modern life to a lakefront cabin near the city. The site is a narrow plot of land tightly wedged between existing single-family houses. The houses have an imposing presence on the site creating a need for visual privacy.

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Architects: Suyama Peterson Deguchi

Location: United States

Design Team: George Suyama, Ric Peterson, Chris Haddad, Alex Rhodes, Greg Gartrell, Davis Hammer, Jessie Kingsley

Area: 1841.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Kevin Scott

Structural Engineer: Gary Mackenzie

Landscape Architect: Richard Hague

Interior Designer: Kylee Shintaffer
Civil Engineer: Jay Dacker

Envelope Consultant: Don Davis

Geotech Consultant (Soil Engineer): Mark McGinnis

Lot Size: 15631.0 ft2

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Text description provided by the architects. The Lake House was conceived as a 21st Century retreat ? an escape from expectations of modern life to a lakefront cabin near the city. The site is a narrow plot of land tightly wedged between existing single-family houses. The houses have an imposing presence on the site creating a need for visual privacy.

Â© Kevin Scott

The program allowed the design to be conceptually simplified into three components ? a thick wall extruded from the topography, a low horizontal roof, and...

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