House on Lake Okoboji by Min / Day
House on Lake Okoboji by Min Day
Min and Day have designed a vacation house around Lake Okoboji in rural Iowa with base concept of “It’s all about the lake”. The house made in a deceptively simple footprint that minimized the size of the house on the site while allowing for a series of spatial frames within the house that focus on the view while excluding the neighbors. This allowed for a sense of total privacy within the house itself.
Lake House by Min Day
Volumetrically simple from the exterior, opaque and slatted vertical Ipe clads a stacked set of spatial tubes (the primary living spaces). Light and air also enters these rooms through operable windows set behind the slatted Ipe cladding. Dense service spaces (“program solids”) fill the remaining volume.
Intimate Interior House on Lake Okoboji by Min Day
The first level is dominated by continuous subtly amorphous space that opens to the exterior in with lake views in several directions. This space bounds the primary living spaces while suggesting connections and extensions to the surrounding landscape, lake and sky. In contrast to the spatial tubes of the public areas, the smaller private spaces (bedrooms and bathrooms) are treated with a pronounced sense of interiority. As spaces become increasingly intimate, the intensity of color increases as well. All interior surfaces in these rooms are subsumed by intense color to the extent that each feels like a zone of pure color.Here color becomes equivalent to the Lake that dominates the spatial tubes, providing and autonomous interiority in contrast to the site-oriented “tubes”. Color becomes an important tool of space making, an additional layer that can reinforce or contradict the other components of spatial geometry, intensifying the experience or adding complexity.
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- House on Lake Okoboji by Min Day
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June 20th, 2011 at 11:37 am
The kitchen and bar are my favorite part of this design, the clean lines of the walls and overhead planes are breathtaking, and intermingled with the lighting scheme employed has really dramatized this space nicely. The timber box design has also got a nice feel.