Project Details
- Project Name
- Bigwin Island Club Cabins
- Client/Owner
- Eagle Landing Company - John S. Wadsworth Jr.
- Project Types
- Multifamily
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Awards
- 2019 AIA Housing Awards
- Shared by
- Madeleine D'Angelo
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
This project won an award from the 2019 AIA Housing Awards
FROM THE AIA:
The Bigwin Island Club Cabins are located on an island, in the middle of a lake, in the Muskoka region in Ontario, on the Canadian shield landscape. Their forms derive from the specifics of this place, while asserting a proto-Muskoka house form - a porch house under a monolithic, shingled, sheltering roof. The datum of the cabins is the broad soffit of the roof, which sits on the bed box, the hearth and the screened porch elements below. This strategy reinforces the grazing line of the deer, who are the real architects of the island.
Like much of the work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple, the Bigwin Island Club Cabins are both of their place, and belong to the history of architecture, and timeless, universal architectural principles. They balance the psychological need for both prospect and refuge and are part of a search for archetypal presence.
Project Credits:
Project: Bigwin Island Club Cabins
Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Design team: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Talbot Sweetapple, Jennifer Esposito, Jonny Leger, Duncan Patterson, Diana Carl, William Green, Rimon Soliman, Will Perkins, Matt Jones, Alastair Bird
Structural Engineer: Blackwell Structural Engineers
Landscape Architect: Baker Turner Inc.
General Contractor: Greystone Construction
