Boating, swimming, skin diving, water skiing, fishing and cruising are how you want to spend your days at lake or seashore and a good vacation house leaves you free to do just that. You needn't worry about tracking sand or water onto the concrete floor of this house, which demands little upkeep anywhere in its simple structure. It opens wide to the outdoors on three sides (one long side flaps up on hinges), and sun deck, screened terrace and dock add as much space outdoors for eating and lounging as there is indoors. Utilities, kitchen compartment and bath are neatly housed in a central core. The tent-like enclosure of the house (it forms both walls and roof) is supported by four A-shaped wood frames anchored in the concrete slab. The structural shape offers good resistance to wind and hurricane for shore sites and, built as a ski hut in the mountains, it will shed heavy snow loads. To close up the house, you latch down the long side, board up the glass gables.
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source: House and Garden Magazine | June 1958
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