Weekend House on Lake Scharmützel
- Thomas Madlener
Lake Scharmützel, a popular sailing venue, lies some 70 km south-east of Berlin. In order to spend more time with boats, the client, a passionate yachtsman, wanted to have a place to stay there. The house he built stands at the highest point of a tree-lined site directly on the lake. The land rises slightly from the road, flows through the transparent ground floor and falls nine metres on the other side down to the water. The architects responded to the client’s wish for a solid form of construction by designing the house in concrete, the surfaces of which were given a corrugated profile as a means of articulating the volume.
