Tiny Township Cottage 01

Simcoe County, ON, Canada

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Tiny Township Cottage 01

Simcoe County, ON, Canada

Firm

Tim Wickens Architect

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2012

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

The heavily wooded site in Tiny Township on the east shore of Nottawasaga Bay is half table land and half gentle, sandy slope crossed by a small water course at its western limits where it meets a dunescape beach. The public living pavilion sits at the western limit of the table land and encloses the site from the north. The garage and bunkie form an edge to the south. The private living spaces on the second floor bridge the living pavilion and the garage. The bridge protects the private courtyard from the road, creates a welcoming entry porch and a distinct experience of crossing a threshold between the city and this space of leisure.

Stone retaining walls, stairs and plinth create a base for the living pavilion and courtyard. The living room, dining room and kitchen are oriented towards a keyhole view of the beach dunes and water to the west and the sunny enclosed courtyard to the south. The bedrooms and bathrooms run perpendicular, north-south on the second floor and offer more open and distant views of the bay. The existing trees were protected whenever possible to provide privacy and significantly, shelter against the wind and storms that come off the bay from the North West. The living space is conceived as a glass box, anchored by a stone fireplace and protected by a shingled wall that extends past the house to the west and wraps the building to form a timbered roof, cantilevering to the south and protecting it from the sun in summer. The protective shingle wall continues to wrap the building is only interrupted a second time by the opening at grade for the site threshold, where the naturally rendered materials signify access to the privileged interior of the site.

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Tiny Township Cottage 01

Simcoe County, ON, Canada

Tiny Township Cottage 01

Simcoe County, ON, Canada

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