A seasonal retreat designed around one idea: the deep eave. Full-height glazing disappears behind a continuous roof that shades the interior through July and lets low winter light walk across the floor in January.
The whole pavilion is built around a single gesture: one long roof that covers everything, and a deck that slips out from under it. Most of the drawings on this project were not about what you see. They were about what the eave does to the summer sun.
The result is a house that behaves like a porch. Even when the glazing is closed, the interior sits under the same shadow line as the deck. The inside doesn't feel like a room; it feels like the cool end of a long covered space.
Triple-pane lift-and-slide doors run the full south facade. When open, the threshold disappears. When closed, the glazing behaves like a thin membrane: the eave above, the deck below, both continuing through the transition.
This study fed directly into the 2-Bedroom Skylight Cabin: deeper eaves than the 1-Bed, same summer strategy, now shipping as a build-ready package.
