This modern residence is a project by the Seattle-based firm McClellan Architects.
It features an elevator, a green roof, LED lighting, and beautiful waterfront views.
Lake Property 2 by McClellan Architects:
“Programmed as a main residence, Lake Home is sited on a quite steep waterfront lot, with drive access limited to the quite top of the web site. The client expressed a want for exposed steel structure and to totally engage in the waterfront landscape.
The property is conceived as a single living environment expressing the seeming dichotomy in between interior and exterior living spaces pivoting about the central kitchen and hearth. Rather than “bring the outdoors in,” Lake Home brings the inside out.
The dynamic tension between the crafted and the organic is evident throughout: the rhythmic structure of the stacked constructing masses is articulated by exposed steel beams and columns, repeated and transformed by trees ordering the outdoor living spaces.
The function of master craftsmen in stone, plaster and steel is crucial to the all-natural, competent feeling of the property. A blackened-steel stairway with Scarpa-inspired specifics is placed against a venetian plaster feature wall. Strong raking LED light fixtures illuminate the wall in the evening, hunting like gold leaf.
An elevator unobtrusively integrated in the back of the property tends to make the Garage (with solar panels for the client’s electric automobile), Mother-in-Law apartment, and principal living floors all accessible. A green roof supplies landscape and view for the upper apartment.”
Photos by: Benjamin Benschneider
