Lookout House
Architect // Archiphernalia
Description
A two-bedroom, two-bathroom beach cottage on the Massachusetts coast, Lookout House serves as a seaside retreat for a family of four. Intended as a quiet oceanfront escape, the cottage is also ideal for entertaining, but just large enough to sleep the family. The house is lifted dramatically off the ground to allow water to flow unimpeded below in the case of a powerful coastal storm. Designed to resist storm damage and sea level rise, the house is intended to last. Intentionally leaving a light footprint on the ground below, the 1.350 sf house requires very little landscaping maintenance. Because of a number of outside factors, this house was not built, but we imagine it as a prototype for future houses in other locations where an equal desire for minimal impact on the land exists.
