Location: Muskoka, Ontario
Project Info: Built as an adult ‘playroom’ on a larger site with an existing family cottage, this pavilion building combines the rustic feel of a pine cottage with the clean and open feeling of contemporary living.
The building sits in an existing forest on a stepped podium and is rotated perpendicular to the shoreline. The podium extends from a higher elevation on the North, down to the sand beach on the South. It also functions as a covered deck and visually extends the plane of the finished floor on the interior outside, to make the building feel larger than it is.
The interior pine finishes glow as sunlight spills in through wall-high and clerestory glazing. Partition walls were omitted, save for the shared wall of the kitchen and bathroom, to create a single space whose program is articulated by the architectural framing of the roof above.