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The Lake Cabin

The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek

The Lake Cabin 

RX Architects

ARCHITECTS
Rx Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Rob Pollard

CONSULTANTS
Chartwood Joinery

CLIENTS
Confidential

ENGINEERING
Price & Myers

CONTRACTOR
Coastview Property Ltd

DESIGN TEAM
Rx Architects

LANDSCAPE
Marian Boswall Landscape Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ashley Gendek

AREA
35 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Brabourne, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Houses, Restoration, Renovation

Text description provided by architect.

The site is in Brabourne within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Beauty (AONB) adjacent to a lake. 

The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek

The designs are for a cabin positioned on the lakes’ edge with a cantilevered deck over the water.

The cabin is approached along a woodland trail and is not accessible by vehicles. The building has been designed as an exposed timber-framed structure.

There are two full glazed elevations that angle out towards the lake and slide open giving views out across the lake and to the countryside beyond.

The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek

Externally the building is clad in a combination of rough sawn wide English oak plank cladding, and thin narrow-plained English oak cladding.

This is combined with a concrete datum line to the base of the building, which steps up to create a concrete bench and log store.

The roof and roof trims are clad in a patinated bronze finish to contrast the natural wood, which is to be left unfinished to tarnish and weather with the landscape.

The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek


The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek


The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek
The Lake Cabin
© Ashley Gendek


The Lake Cabin
Plan
The Lake Cabin
Site plan


The Lake Cabin
Eastern elevation
The Lake Cabin
Western elevation
The Lake Cabin
Southern elevation
The Lake Cabin
Northern elevation

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