Watch the Video: http://vimeo.com/gluckplus/groundedInspired by the tradition of Adirondack Great Camps, this modern family retreat is an escape nestled into a heavily wooded lake front property in Upstate New York. Visitors to the site are invited to leave behind the fast paced urban life and enter a serene environment where the focus is on nature, friends, family and relaxation. The campus of buildings consists of a garage at the top of the hill, two guesthouses in the woods and the recreation building, family house and boathouse at the lakefront. The forms of the Family House and Recreation Building snake in and out of the contours of the land, buried into the hillside and seamlessly integrating into the landscape with ample green roofs for concerts, games and gatherings. Designed as a focal point for family and friends, the Recreation Building includes an open living area for casual and formal entertaining with views of the Boathouse and an interior courtyard amphitheater for chamber music recitals or impromptu table tennis matches. An art gallery connects the various recreational options and continues up to the second floor glass dining room. Three skylights puncture the roof and bring natural light down into the lap pool, hot room and staff lounge. The Family House is the more private of the two buildings, designed to allow a playful interaction between indoor and outdoor living and to achieve a less prescribed entry and movement through the building. Indoor rooms open up to become sleeping porches, while the sunken courtyards become outdoor living room alluding to the Japanese concept engawa, extending the sitting room of the master suite out to the landscape. Both buildings have wood screens that break up the reflections of the glass facades facing the lake as well as modulate privacy, scale the facade and soften the interior light.Project TeamKees Brinkman
Holly Chacon
Kathy Chang
Steven Chen
Christopher Farnum
Peter L. Gluck
Charles Greenwald
Bethia Liu
Adam Manrique
Joseph Morin
Eric Schaefer