Design Concepts

Designed for the Shield, the lake and the backyard.

Concept designs from the Green Homes collection. Each one shows how a model could be shaped to a real kind of site. None of these have been built yet.

Design inspiration — Surf Cottage: aerial NE 45° showing the monopitch charcoal metal roof, wrap deck, barrel sauna and sunken hot tub.

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Surf Cottage

193 sq ft · Lakeside concept · Muskoka Lakeside

Concept design · not yet built

Cottage 192 · Boathouse Modern

An imagined barefoot lakeside retreat. Boathouse modern in the spirit of Ossipoff: charcoal monopitch roof, full-height black-grid glazing, a sunk-in carpeted living pit, sauna on the deck, sunrise lounges, all of it open to the lake. Form follows function: a two-storey 193 sq ft footprint with grey-stained pine shiplap on a board-formed concrete plinth, full-width north galley, two enclosed upper bedrooms, wrap deck carrying a hemlock barrel sauna and sunken hot tub. Every move earns its keep, and its view.

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Design inspiration — Surf Cottage: SE corner at sunrise, sauna and fire-table lounge on the deck.
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Design inspiration — Surf Cottage: SW corner at dusk, two-storey massing glowing warm amber.
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Design inspiration — Surf Cottage: upper south primary bedroom with full-height glazing framing the boreal lake.
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