Lake House is a modern two-story house located in Fairfield, Connecticut, redesigned in 2022 by Worrell Yeung.

Description
Worrell Yeung has designed a 4,900-SF family lake house defined by cantilevered horizontal roof planes that cascade down the steep site towards the water. The home is constructed primarily from site-cast concrete, allowing for large, uninterrupted glass openings that enhance the connection to nature. Programmatically, a lush interior courtyard separates the public space from private areas, while a rooftop garden softens and blurs the modern, geometric home into the lakeside landscape. Sustainable and green strategies bolster the design throughout.
?The starting point for this weekend house in Connecticut was to provide a direct relationship with the lakeside landscape and a platform to experience space and nature,? says Max Worrell, Worrell Yeung co-principal. ?Part of the goal of the project was to minimize the house?s presence and perceived size from the street. We ended up layering planes and stacking volumes to break up the mass of the house as it cascades down the hill,? adds Jejon Yeung, Worrell Yeung co-principal.
The home is located on a narrow peninsula on Candlewood Lake, a lakeside community in Western Connecticut. While the site is shallow, its location on a hilltop offers expansive views and lake access on one side. The homeowners initially approached Worrell Yeung to renovate an existing one story cottage-style hous...