CRAB HOUSE: Modern Take on the American Beach Cabin
By Bridgette Steffen on: Architecture
Cabins are meant as relaxing getaways in inspiring location, like the mountains, woods, or the shore. Andrea Salvini, revisits the American cabin, with this updated version of the beach house meant for Fire Island, NY. Of her trilogy of projects on Fire Island, the most interesting is her Crab House, an “anthropomorphic” house inspired by a crab. The stilts raise the vertical cabin off the ground, in order to preserve land as much as possible. The front of the house, which faces the ocean, is almost completely glass with a large open air solarium on the top floor. (more…)
via:inhabitat
