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Lakeside House

Lakeside House
© Maija Luutonen

LAKESIDE HOUSE

NOW for Architecture And Urbanism

ARCHITECTS
NOW for Architecture and Urbanism

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maija Luutonen

AREA
140.0 m2

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Finland, United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The site is in Saimaa, the Finnish lake district. A rocky west-facing slope, growing pine, juniper, moss, lichen and blueberries, descends to the vast lake.

Lakeside House
© Maija Luutonen
Lakeside House
© Maija Luutonen

The house is designed as a place to meet and spend time together for a multigenerational family. The plan investigates how architecture can be actively used by the inhabitants to moderate between a collective experience and individual privacy.

All specific, functional spaces are compact, and gathered around a large living room that opens to the magnificent lake view.

Lakeside House
© Maija Luutonen
Lakeside House
© Maija Luutonen

The sleeping alcoves and bedroom are intimate spaces that can be closed or opened to the common central space with simple revolving and sliding walls.

 The building’s interiors are white, leaving room for the changing light and colours of the day, seasons and landscape.


Lakeside House
Plan
Lakeside House
Sketch

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