After the great success of the Delta shelter (weekend holiday cabin) design, award winning architect Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects has designed the chicken point cabin which is yet another inspirational lakeside shelter in the woods. The structure consists of a little box with a big window that opens to the surrounding landscape. The cabin’s large window wall of 30 feet by 20 feet opens the entire living space to the forest and lake. Low maintenance materials like concrete block, steel, concrete floors and plywood have been utilized which has assisted in keeping with the notion of a cabin, and left unfinished to naturally age and acquire a patina that fits in with the natural setting.
About Architect Tom Kundig:
Tom Kundig is one of the most recognized architects in North America. He has received some of the nation’s highest design awards, including a National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a total of 37 American Institute of Architects awards. In 2011, he was included in The Wallpaper* 150, Wallpaper* Magazine’s list of the 150 people who have most influenced, inspired and improved the way we live, work and travel over the last 15 years. In 2012, his project, The Pierre, was named Best of Competition by the International Interior Design Association’s Interior Design Awards. In 2011, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Houses 2, the follow up to the 2006 book, Tom Kundig Houses, one of the Press’s bestselling architecture books of all time.
