Timber iQ April - May 2018 // Issue: 37 | Page 34

PROJECTS View from dining room looks towards the living room with screen porch beyond. Atop the steep topography of a lake-side site in Ontario, Canada, sits a holiday home that consists of two storeys stacked on top of one another. south, so the house can generate all its own power. The combination of vertical skylights and a fully glazed south-facing façade result in a generously daylit interior. A covered walkway shades the main wall of glass from summer sun while admitting lower winter sun to passively heat the dark-dyed concrete floor. *A plain low block or plinth that serves as a support for a column, urn or statue or as the foundation of a wall. 32 APRIL / MAY 2018 // The hallway looks towards the master bedroom.