Weekend Cabin: Chicken Point Cabin
Remove a wall? We can do that.
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape—for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite.
CHICKEN POINT CABIN starts with the site itself. The owners had a wooded half-acre in northern Idaho with a hundred feet of lakeshore, and their brief to architect Tom Kundig was almost comically simple: make the place as open to the water as possible. Standing on the shore together, they wondered aloud whether the entire front of the house might somehow open to the lake. Kundig said he thought it could. “Little house,
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