The beautiful Sleeping Cottage on Lake Huron, Canada, by Mos, 2003-4. Many people may already have seen Mos’ Floating House on Lake Huron. Mos is an architectural firm that in their own words is “a collective of designers, architects, thinkers, and state-of-the-art weirdoes. The two principals, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, teach at Harvard University and Yale University while maintaining their practice. We work all over the world, designing private houses, institutional buildings, urban strategies, research, books, installations, and other projects that are less easily categorized.”
Very elementary! Wood on a base of stone seems to have a very long tradition; in German, the word for the second floor is “1. Stock” which hints on wood, because the ancient way to build a house in mountain regions was a stone basement with wood on top.
A living room with a huge window is great, but concerning the bedroom, I would not feel at ease to be exposed like this, even if nobody is there. Human instinct has not yet completely adapted to the protective power of transparent material like a glass pane.
that abode is tres chic. i would love to own that on a plot of 5 acres in the pacific northwest.