We're excited to share the progress for a new waterfront house on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. The sustainable design employs geothermal heat and cooling, super-insulated walls, triple-pane windows, and ICF foundations, ensuring minimum use of resources as well as low cost of operation.
Wetland areas, shoreline, and property setbacks greatly restricted the build-able area of the site. The building form and the programmatic layout of the interior shifts and jogs to accommodate the site.
The house is divided into public and private zones and is entered in the center of the two zones. The left, public box contains the main living space, kitchen, dining, and access to the screened porch and beach. The right box contains the private master suite.
At the second level, the left, public box contains the bunk room with bunk beds for 8 children, while the right box comprises two guestrooms and a den for more individual television watching and reading.
The exterior cladding features a traditional beveled lap siding in a contemporary, stacked pattern with reveals at intervals of four, three, and two feet in order to limit waste. The screened porch to the left and the middle connector between primary volumes of the house is accented with copper.