Maine Island
AIA/BSA Design Award
AIA/CT Design Award
Description
Summer guest cabin and winter truck storage
Site
Family camp on an island
Design
The first floor functions as a living room in the summer with French doors that open to the view. At the end of the season, the furniture is moved aside to make room for the pick-up truck. Lanterns suspended from the points of the roof are standard mooring balls fitted with light bulbs inside.
near Boston, Massachusetts
Orienting the house perpendicular to the slope allows for the separation of the property into a public, arrival side on the North and a private, garden side to the South, both with views of the fields.
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Connecticut Countryside
Lantern House is a modern interpretation of the New England vernacular: taut, simple forms with pitched metal roofs and white-painted wood siding. The glassy, lantern-like entry, with its prow-shaped canopy, signals the open, expansive space within.
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near Boston, Massachusetts
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