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Cantilever villa
Lake Pavilion
A summer house that reaches eight metres over the water on a single concrete beam, anchored into the granite shore.
Year
2023
Location
Engadin, Switzerland
Area
410 m²
Status
Completed
The project
Photography — Studio archive
The brief
The clients wanted one room where they could sit above the lake without a boat. The pavilion is that room: a living space, a kitchen and two bedrooms held on a post-tensioned beam that disappears into the rock.
Structure
The cantilever is balanced by the stone mass of the bedroom wing behind it. From the water the building reads as a single horizontal line under the larches; from the road it is almost invisible.
Glazing on the lake side slides fully into the walls, so in summer the main room is open on three sides.
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