Bronze Architecture · 2018
Lakeside Living House and Garden
- Bronze A' Design Award 2018 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Stephan Maria Lang for private client
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 18,084
- Verification code C5184E57C3 · Verify this award
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About Lakeside Living House and Garden
The Architecture is to express a relationship to nature in which the house is part of the natural environment - recreating a lakeshore with discreet interventions and a simple wooden shell sitting carefully on the landscape acting as a refuge. Lucent shadows from the existing trees enter the space. The grass area seems to extend the interior of the house. The aim of this project was to create Organic Architecture by expressing the site character, the articulation of space and material, the light design and the contrasting quality of private and open space.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Lakeside Living House and Garden is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Lakeside Living House and Garden is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Lakeside Living House and Garden splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- A Summerhouse with garage, a boathouse and a Sauna perfectly integrated in to the lake shore. Natural aging materials support the concept 'Gesamtkunstwerk', where the Architecture, Garden and Interior spaces are in perfect harmony. The building is composed of a concrete body and a crafted wooden shell with a light axis running through it ending in a pier at the lake. The site was re naturalized with grasses. Wooden walkways lead to a boathouse and a generous Terrace overlooking the lake.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Lake site dimension- 6.000 sqm, 50m shore an 2000 sqm wet meadow had been renaturated by cutting off the drainage system.
- Tags
- garden, lake, house, landscape, lakeside, lakeshore, bavaria, germany, architecture
- Production Technology
- The lake side was re naturalized with grasses. Wooden walkways lead to a boathouse and a generous Terrace overlooking the lake.
- Design Challenge
- The lake clay was the most difficult part for constructing of the boat house and foundation of the main house.
- Research
- We tried to reinterprete the athmosphere of the surrounding wetland area which is famous for its original beauty. It means only grasses, lillys and Filipendula ulmaria as mass plantation
- Inspiration
- The dream of the owners was to build a house onto the narrow lake site which has a close connection to nature combined with a Japanese atmosphere. The Japanese culture reflects a feeling of sophistication, perfection in detailing, open flowing spaces and the accommodation of changing seasons. The aim of the architect was to design a Gesamtkunstwerk where the Architecture is to express a strong relationship to nature in which the house is part of the natural environment.
- Project Duration
- 2011 - 2013, lake Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Operation Flow
- It is a low maintenance, natural hideaway for an old couple.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Hans Kreye, House K lakeview, 2012.
Image #2: Photographer Hans Kreye, House K backyard, 2012.
Image #3: Photographer Hans Kreye, House K garden detail, 2012.
Image #4: Photographer Hans Kreye, House K boathouse, 2012.
