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Orcas Island Retreat

A house that unabashedly celebrates the drama of its natural setting on the steep slopes of Orcas Island's Buck Mountain
Floating above a luxurious carpet of verdant green moss on a steep rocky bald, this home’s foundation touches the ground along two slim concrete fins. These lean legs in turn support a dramatic steel Vierendeel frame allowing the wings of the house to cantilever 28 feet outward in both directions....
Orcas Island Retreat
Floating above a luxurious carpet of verdant green moss on a steep rocky bald, this home’s foundation touches the ground along two slim concrete fins. These lean legs in turn support a dramatic steel Vierendeel frame allowing the wings of the house to cantilever 28 feet outward in both directions....
Orcas Island Retreat
photo credit - Ben Benschneider
Orcas Island Retreat
Floating above a luxurious carpet of verdant green moss on a steep rocky bald, this home’s foundation touches the ground along two slim concrete fins. These lean legs in turn support a dramatic steel Vierendeel frame allowing the wings of the house to cantilever 28 feet outward in both directions....
Orcas Island Retreat
With a footprint designed to minimally impact the site, the house floats over the undisturbed mountainside of moss covered rock. Costs and resources required for maintenance are minimized by eliminating exterior finishes. Fiber cement board cladding requires no paint or treatment and all steel...
Orcas Island Retreat
Conceived as a convertible space, the open living room blurs the distinction between indoors and outdoors… Dramatically scaled sliding glass walls completely open the room to spectacular views, the whisper of the forest breezes, the heady scents of cedar and the warmth of the sun. This home has a...
Orcas Island Retreat
The steel exo-skeleton cradles a floating radiant concrete floor platform. A shallow sloped exposed timber-framed roof structure serves as a metaphorical forest canopy umbrella and optimally orients the photovoltaic solar panel system to the southwest. A continuous clerestory wraps all sides of the...
Orcas Island Retreat
Conceived as a convertible space, the open living room blurs the distinction between indoors and outdoors… Dramatically scaled sliding glass walls completely open the room to spectacular views, the whisper of the forest breezes, the heady scents of cedar and the warmth of the sun. This home has a...
Orcas Island Retreat
Dramatically scaled sliding glass walls completely open the room to spectacular views. photo credit - Gary Matoso
Orcas Island Retreat
Orcas Island Retreat
Combination of finishes - Viroc, concrete, rusty steel- is what makes this house sing. photo credit - Gary Matoso
Orcas Island Retreat
photo credit: Ben Benschneider
Orcas Island Retreat
Orcas Island Retreat
Master bathroom with soaking tub and resin panels
Orcas Island Retreat
photo credit: Ben Benschneider
Orcas Island Retreat
Orcas Island Retreat
Blurred line between inside and outside. photo credit - Gary Matoso
Orcas Island Retreat
A Vierendeel Truss makes this cantilevered house possible.
Orcas Island Retreat
A home should be fun in addition to being shelter. This cantilevered home creates some amazing opportunities to swing and feel as though you're on the edge of the world. photo credit - Gary Matoso
Orcas Island Retreat