The design of this weekend family retreat on Shelter Island, NY responds to the location’s wistful beauty. Mature trees, hedgerows and rolling lawns extend to a narrow sandy beach and the water beyond.
The secret to a successful holiday home is to incorporate options for private retreat that are complemented by spaces which gather family together for meals, games and entertaining.
In the southern part of Malé Kyšice town on the edge of the Křivoklát woods, there is a residential district originally home to weekend cottages.
The house could be conceptually divided into several layout and structural parts. The bedroom, bathroom and toilet occupy the brick part – originally a living area.
KRM House is a pavilion-style weekend house informed by the ancient Latvian farmstead – the viensēta. The extravagance-free holiday home encourages a mindful awareness of place and time.
Peninsula Weekend House, a home in a coastal city, explores an intriguing relationship between the privacy and domesticity of its residential program and natural setting.
The House in El Torón is the first to be designed within this reserve, and its conception emerged from two premises that enabled us to question and rethink the idea of a house on the coast.
The Costa Brava Weekend House project involved the renovation of two existing buildings and the construction of a new complimentary space, to create two independent dwellings designed for use by a family as a second home.
