Shoreline Dwelling is a modern cabin located in New Hampshire, United States, designed in 2017 by Murdough Design.

Description
The design is a modern interpretation of a traditional cabin: a simple but dynamic wood-clad box and sheltering roof with ample connection to the outdoors. A framework of “expanding” and “sheltering” spaces are choreographed in a sequence of episodes to ground and amplify the relationships and connections between the building and the landscape.
With one’s movement through the cabin, multiple experiences of one’s place in the site and framed, unfolded and revealed. Materials and clean detailing support varied readings of interior/exterior conditions. Glazed fields and frames suggest different relationships to the forest, trees, lake, and sun beyond. The spatial expansion and contraction under the sloping roof and between/ within loose volumes provide a dynamic and interiorized landscape which speaks to the natural one. The roof’s pressure holds a comforting space, cocoon-like in the bedrooms, but gives way in the upper hall as the floor changes to perforated steel and opens to the living area and lake below. The open riser stair extends vertically in a chasm that engages a stand of towering pines beyond. The exterior deck reaches towards the tree canopy as well as into the interior living room. Materials occasionally give way to unconventional moments of understanding one’s place i...