A 3,000 sf residence set on a quiet lakeside, designed in the manner of the Shingle Style.  The client was a student of cooking, thus the kitchen is enlarged in each of the schemes.  In each case the entrance is through a double or triple height space opening to each floor.  The house is flanked on the site by a garage and a pergola to create a sense of arrival and enclosure. 

Scheme A was a romantic plan with an irregular footprint and a stair in a tower.  Scheme B was a ‘rationalized’ plan with a rectangular outline.  All the principle spaces are regular rectangles.  Scheme C utilizes the heptagon, or seven sided polygon to guide the plan.  There are no regular spaces but certain ‘functional’ aspects are contained in a rectilinear block which forms the front elevation.  The heptagonal plan was suggested by the dominant personality of the client.   

Scheme A was selected to develop further but the project did not proceed. 

Scheme A Romantic

Scheme B Rectangle

Scheme C Heptagon