Verbeek & AsherArchitects · Minneapolis
Verbeek & Asher
Residential · 2021

Lakeside Cabin

A four-season cabin drawn as two simple cedar bars — living and sleeping — joined by a glazed link that frames the lake and lets the trees pass through.

Brainerd Lakes, MN2,600 sq ftCompleted
Lakeside Cabin — Brainerd Lakes, MN

We split the program into two gabled volumes set lightly on the slope, preserving the mature pines between them. The glazed link reads as a breezeway you can live in, with the lake captured as a single horizontal frame.

Detailing is deliberately rough-edged for a cabin: full-thickness cedar, exposed rafters, and a board-formed hearth. The architecture steps back so the site can lead.

Collaborators

  • Landscape — Field & Verge
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