House on Lake Okoboji

TGIF!

I got this piece from Ramon (Thank you!) just morning and thought it would be great to share with you all on YEOW.

Its called the House on Lake Okoboji by Min|Day Architects, a firm in San Francisco.

Here is a little summary they have on their site about the project:

West Lake Okoboji, Iowa, 2008
For a lake residence on a diminutive lot in rural Iowa we conceived of a house as a series of spatial frames that offer a focused and private experience on an otherwise densely populated shore. This second home sits in a resort area that appears as an oasis in the midst of the Midwestern 'corn desert'. The owners desired a house that was 'all about the lake' and the oak trees that bound the lake from the expanse of farmland beyond. The house behaves as a 3-dimensional set of 'blinders' obscuring the neighbors while gradually opening to the lake beyond. Passing through the house one moves from areas of density to areas with a diaphanous quality while color and material texture intensify moving from open to intimate spaces.

 Check out their site:
http://www.minday.com/minday2011.html