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ter, outdoor living, and water movement."
What's more, although the entire house
structure is concrete, client sensitivity
to the neighborhood vernacular meant
that every concrete surface is clad in a
wood rainscreen system. Covered in
the same sustainable timber—the New
Zealand wood Abodo by reSAWN—the
undersides of the projecting roof planes
provide ample solar shade to the large
glazed openings.
Looking out to the lake and its lush fringes,
with the water, trees and views all central
to the project, Lake House is all one hopes
for but more than one expects from an
architecture so specifically named. In
shedding the typical camphouse skin for
a sleeker contemporary interpretation,
Worrell Yeung has expanded the possibil-
ities of a beloved architectural style—and
a home's residential horizons, all in one
stroke. worrellyeung.com
deck space that bridge indoor and outdoor
thresholds, the space is quiet, harmonious
and a study in decorative restraint. Lake
House is not showy. Any notes of drama—
the courtyard, the floating staircase, the
refined finishes—are supporting players
in a larger plot, which is the home and its
inhabitants' communion with nature.
To that end Worrell Yeung employed a
series of green strategies. "The expressed
horizontal roof planes that project and
cantilever in multiple directions were
nice opportunities to vegetate with native
plants as a vibrant roof garden feature,
but also to absorb rain runoff," Yeung
points out. "Water not held immediately
by the plant soil is distributed into a rain
garden detention system in the front yard
as passive stormwater management that
adds biodiversity." The cascading roof
planes, he adds, "become an architec-
tural expression of [their] function as shel-
