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.
