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Located on Georgian Bay, south–west of Parry Sound, the Channel Cabin is an intimate shelter and sleeping cabin designed to accommodate overnight guests. Its gabled form is a re-imagined version of the vernacular style. With ample room for a queen bed on the upper level, storage for another queen trundle bed is created below. During the busy times of the year the cabin can be filled from wall to wall with bed. Responding to the site, the façade of the building faces West and is open to the landscape, with great views of the open water, while the other three sides of the building are nestled in woods. This positioning of the structure allows it to stay cool in the warm summer months and out of the wind in the stormy winter months. A layering of screen, glass and wood cladding was designed for the exterior. By varying the distance between the strips of wood and open strips of glass and screen multiple sizes of windows are created, while simultaneously negotiating privacy. Channel Cabin is at once a refuge from the elements but also a cozy place, in which, one can be close to Nature.
Designed in collaboration with Ya'el Santopinto & Shannon Wiley. 2009