Brooklyn studio Worrell Yeung designed a timber-clad lake home with cantilevered roof planes that cascade down s sloped close to Connecticut’s Candlewood Lake.
Worrell Yeung accomplished the 4,900-square-foot (455-square metre) getaway in 2021, changing a small cottage beforehand on the positioning with a spacious home that makes use of the hillside to decrease its mass.
“A part of the objective of the mission was to reduce the home’s presence and perceived measurement from the road,” stated principal Jejon Yeung. “We ended up layering planes and stacking volumes to interrupt up the mass of the home because it cascades down the hill.”
The home is oriented round a big oak tree and makes use of a site-cast concrete construction to cantilever roof planes in a number of instructions, creating tiered out of doors terraces that present photo voltaic shade to the glazing beneath.
“Utilizing its non-contiguous load bearing factors, we have been capable of shift and cantilever the second flooring quantity, opening up half of the primary flooring roof for gardens and occupiable out of doors deck house,” stated principal Max Worrell.
The house connects to the earth with native limestone base partitions and bluestone pavers that reference the world’s rock outcroppings, whereas the dwell inexperienced roof permits the house to mix into the treetops.
The concrete construction is hid with thermally handled wooden rain screens in numerous tones and orientations – a collaboration with Pennsylvania-based reSawn Timber – that have been pre-weathered for low upkeep and longevity.
The facade partitions are clad in pine with customized profile planks, whereas the roof planes and soffits are charred cypress.
“Working with reSawn, we got here up with many customized patterns and profiles that give the facade some refined richness and distinctive visible depth,” Worrell advised Dezeen.
“Massive 10-foot tall strong wooden slats keep visibility alongside the glazed floating staircase, whereas additionally offering privateness screening from indirect angles.”
The wood-clad types give method to uninterrupted, floor-to-ceiling glass openings that enable the interiors to connect with the lake.
The 2 sides of the home are related by an entry courtyard that holds a decorative Japanese maple and serves as a centre level.
“We by no means wish to absolutely give away the view upon instantly coming into any house or residence, however as an alternative conceal and reveal,” Yeung stated.
The courtyard “separates and organizes the structure each horizontally and vertically, but in addition supplies dynamic layering of rooms and views trying externally from the interiors and likewise internally from the outside areas,” Worrell stated.
On the primary degree, the personal north aspect of the home holds two bedrooms and two loos, whereas the general public south aspect accommodates the open lounge, eating room and kitchen, which centre round a customized gray marble fire.
A floating cantilevered stair rises to the first suite with nook glazing, a research, terrace and roof backyard above and descends to a household room, wine cellar, storage and providers areas which can be submerged within the lake degree of the home.
The clear, white interiors are bolstered by heat, natural supplies that “supply a recent translation of the encompassing panorama,” the group stated.
“Oak flooring, walnut cupboards and paneling, quartzite counter tops reference the rocky shore, wooded knolls, and deep gray-blue water, accentuating the continuity between inside and outdoors.”
The loos are highlighted by Carrara marble mosaic tiles and blue de savoie marble slabs that line the walnut-trimmed tub and bathe.
The inexperienced roof helps regulate the house’s temperature and permits rain run-off to divert right into a passive detention backyard.
A serpentine path directs folks right down to the lake by a lush panorama that was “revegetated and stabilized with native vegetation,” Yeung stated.
Worrell Yeung’s clear strains and low-profile signature may be seen in many homes and residences throughout the Tri-State space together with a minimalist black barn in Upstate New York and the restoration of a Nineteen Seventies Charles Gwathmey home within the Hamptons.
The pictures is by Naho Kubota.
Challenge credit:
Design: Worrell Yeung — Jejon Yeung, AIA LEED AP / Max Worrell, AIA / Yunchao Le / Bryan Cordova
Structural: Silman
Civil: AKRF
Panorama: Let It Develop
Contractor: New Line Constructions
