A House for hoarding

In response to the client’s enormous collection of antique glass bottles, this small lakeside retreat deploys a field of expanding and contracting boxes woven together as a screen to house the collection. The screen responds to the interior program, creating nodes of privacy when needed and strategically opening up to sweeping waterfront views. The depth of the south-facing screen not only makes it useful as storage for the client’s colorful collection of glass but it also maintains a balanced interior climate by preventing heat gain in the summer and permitting solar heat gain in the winter.