Pura Vida is a modern floating home at Portage Bay seat

Seattle’s Portage Bay has a new architectural landmark – a floating home designed Dina Builders In cooperation with Architects Hoshide Verzer. Rooted in Costa Rican concept of Pure Vida, appropriately appointed Pure life cork home It celebrates simplicity, balance and deep connection with nature while accepting the unique challenges of life on the water.

Replacing the decade The old house that once occupied the channel leaf, the project started with a new reinforced concrete float – based on long-term stability and modern approach to water supply and electrical systems. The home itself was built in Dina’s shipyard and was carefully dragged a reminder of precision required for a floating architecture in Seattle.

On 1,780 square meters of internal space with an additional deck on a roof of 820 square meters, home priority of efficiency and adaptability. His pure rectangular form makes the most of its clues, while the glass walls at the main level dissolve the border between indoors and on three sides of the residence. From the sunrise via Lake Washington in the turnover of the ship along the lake, each room is designed to get involved with a half-changeable landscape of Portage Bay.

Flexible shading systems, operating screens and sliding glass doors allow residents to be transferred between privacy and openness – whether they enjoy family time indoors or greeting the lively atmosphere of the waterfront.

Interiors echoes maritime adjustment through Tikov cabinets, white oak floors and a carefully created cabinet that doubles as architectural crosses between spaces. Warm, natural finishes bring a sense of timelessness, and at the same time amplifying home with tea community.

Up, the primary apartment is designed as a withdrawal reached over double stairs with a double height on top with roof times. The upper level of bedroom comes entirely with a pleasant window seat overlooking the green roof. The lower level library provides another private space, it is attached if necessary to create a private detainable residential area.

The bedroom contains a cultivated mixture of forests, stones, glass and resin to reflect the spectrum of nature seen from Pure Vida.

The deck on the roof offers another living space that combines outdoor comfort with subtle privacy. Mobile furniture, modular tables, and even fire fireplace provide flexible configurations for all of peaceful evenings to social gatherings. The integrated user of the SEDUM is not only softening the structure profile, but also supports Stormwater management – ecological nodding on a sustainable floating home design.

For more information on Puri Vida floating home Dina Builders and Architects Hoshide VerzerVisit hv-architectus.com.

Photography Andrew Giammarco.

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