Family Motel

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As a sometime-vacation house to be shared by two separate families, this lake house presented a unique set of challenges: How to design a luxurious and affordable residence that can comfortably accommodate one or two families at any given time? Our solution was to design a simple and clean ‘motel’ house with rooms structured around an equally spaced column grid. A commercial storefront window system was specified to economically open the house to the lake and pool and to emphasize the house’s structural elegance.

Family Motel

Aerial view. The house is simple in form and intended to have a minimal impact on the existing topography of the site.