Jasper Bay Residence.

A detached but adjacent ensuite structure was added to house guests, a home office and exercise room. The team chose to make the bathroom in the secondary structure available from the exterior, allowing the homeowners to scale the number of friends they’re able to host during the summer months by camping on the site.

To accommodate the larger footprint, we added a new septic system to the site, with a storage tank to store well water pumped at a lower rate. Our design also reused peeled poles from the existing A-frame cabin, and incorporated site-sawn lumber into several pieces of built-in furniture and into the garage of the home. 

As lovers of the outdoors and the water, the site’s proximity to Jasper Bay was perfect for the homeowners, allowing them to connect with the environs of the island and even to farm oysters in the Bay directly. Our goal was to create a relationship between the home and its natural environment; through scale and material, the home fits right in. The result is a compact family compound that frames exterior spaces and allows the site to flow through it.