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Floating House
Floating House
Canada
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Floating House
Canada
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
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The Floating House is part of a master plan of five proposed cabins/houses based on the repetition of a standardized vernacular archetype. The interior layouts have a hollowed, open, no-frills symmetrical organization, while the exterior utilizes an inventive cedar plank rainscreen for the walls and roof. The rainscreen provides air movement between interior and exterior, dissipating any heat gain and eliminating the need for air conditioning. An exterior path cuts through the house and stitches together the two sides of the U-shaped island. A traditional on-site construction process would have been prohibitively expensive due to the remoteness of the island, so instead the 2,200 sf house was built on a steel pontoon structure near the lake shore, towed to the contractor’s shop, and eventually towed and anchored to the final site for the installation of finishes.
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