White Sand Retreat

How can a constructed landscape both celebrate its natural setting while creating a compatible modern human use? A family retreat on Whitesand Lake is a sensitive repurposing of an existing cabin site that moves away from nostalgia and temporality to permanence and play. The combination of immersive respite, material simplicity and minimal intervention lay the foundation for the landscape framework. The design reflects a landscape led, comprehensive vision through an ecological and pedestrian-centric lens, which places the uniqueness of the client at the forefront of the landscape.