Delta Shelter

Mazama, Washington

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects

To keep this 1,000-square-foot weekend retreat out of flood danger, the architects raised the building onto four steel columns. The second-level entrance leads to two bedrooms and baths; the living area and kitchen are on the third floor. A cantilevered steel deck extends from both the upper and middle floors. To protect the steel-and-glass-clad cabin, four shutters open and close simultaneously via a handwheel that operates drive shafts, U-joints, spur gears, and cables to move the shutters across the glazed portions of the facade.

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