Congrats to Bunkie on the Hill, recipient of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association (Real Cedar) Award in the Wood Design & Building Awards. Nestled in the Muskoka trees, this serene retreat reimagines the classic A-frame cabin with intersecting gables and expansive windows that make the compact interior feel spacious and airy.
Sustainably sourced wood is central to the design, with flitch beams supporting wide spans and Western red cedar cladding the ceilings, soffits, and entryway screen. This cedar screen gently filters light, casting dynamic shadows throughout the day. Inside, the warm red cedar ceiling, paired with white oak floors and maple walls, creates a cozy glow at dusk—a welcoming retreat in the woods.
For additional insights on this project, visit its page on WIN to uncover what makes it a leader in sustainable design: https://lnkd.in/e787a7a2
This project uses wood in so many ways. I think perhaps everything in the project is wood. So you can see what the wood cladding is, a sort of beautiful grayed out cladding. There's an exterior trellis that kind of, you know, you enter through that filters light this wood. The expressive ceiling that's clad in wood flooring is wood. The millwork. Would the stairs would And yet with all of that wood, it's used so carefully and it's balanced so nicely that in the end you get this, you know, sort of sublime calm. So it's a, it's a wonderful use of wood in so many different ways. If the jury had to summarize kind of key takeaways around this project would be it's kind of just about two things. It's about wood and it's about the views. And there was actually nothing else. There's nothing extraneous. And the product itself, just architecture, really celebrates and frames the view of this kind of surrounding landscape, which is itself a lot of forest. So it's just kind of two things. Screws and wood and it just marries those two things so well. I think what stands out for the jury on a project that uses so much wood like this is there's some projects that just use a lot of wood and it's not necessarily carefully considered. It feels there's an excessiveness to it. This project is really pared down and it lets the different types of wood. So it uses sheet plywood, it uses, you know, beautiful sort of honed wood for the ceiling and, and it uses each of those types of wood and sort of said there's some wood cladding that's painted white, but you still understand that it's wood. So there's a. Sort of uniqueness in the way that they use and combine and rethink of the wood that kind of comes together in a really beautiful palette that again is really it's really balanced.
