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Modern lake house blurring indoor/outdoor boundaries

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Lake House Two is a stunning contemporary waterfront property that has been designed by McClellan Architects and is situated in Seattle, Washington. The home has been programmed as a primary residence, sited on a very steep waterfront lot, with drive access limited to the very top of the site. The client expressed a desire for an exposed steel structure and to fully engage in the waterfront landscape.

The home is conceived as a single living environment expressing the seeming dichotomy between interior and exterior living spaces pivoting around the central kitchen and hearth.  Rather than โ€œbring the outside in,โ€ Lake House brings the inside out.

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The dynamic tension between the crafted and the natural is evident throughout: the rhythmic structure of the stacked building masses is articulated by exposed steel beams and columns, repeated and transformed by trees ordering the outdoor living spaces.

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The work of master craftsmen in stone, plaster and steel is essential to the natural, competent feeling of the home.  A blackened-steel stairway with Scarpa-inspired details is placed against a venetian plaster feature wall. Powerful raking LED light fixtures illuminate the wall in the evening, looking like gold leaf.

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An elevator unobtrusively integrated in the back of the home makes the Garage (with solar panels for the clientโ€™s electric car), Mother-in-Law apartment, and main living floors all accessible. A green roof provides landscape and view for the upper apartment.

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Photos: Ben Benschneider

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