The Lake House / Suyama Peterson Deguchi – 【Architectural CAD Drawings】

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

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.

The program allowed the design to be conceptually simplified into three components – a thick wall extruded from the topography, a low horizontal roof, and a volume for sleeping. The site conditions led us to carve multiple indoor/outdoor spaces into the topography – by filling some of the spaces with water we were able to expand the sense of the waterfront deeper into the property. The resulting spaces relieved the pressure for privacy from the waterfront exposure. A low roof provides a horizontal datum; a reference point to the sloping topography and a sense of open privacy from the neighbors.