"It's a very picturesque location, but as you would imagine, it's also a very stormy one," says architect Winn Wittman, who designed the home for indoor-outdoor living in the Gulf Coast climate. Embraced and hammered by nature, Pelican House has withstood four hurricanes, both during and after construction.
"The only evidence of the hurricanes is that the wood, which was initially smooth, now has a sandblasted appearance," Wittman says. Home to a doctor, his nurse wife, and their five children, the 7,500-square-foot house features sliding glass doors, glass walls, and custom-size windows to create a seamless connection between the interior and the exterior.
"We wanted the living room to connect to the water, and we designed the home in such a way that there is an 82-foot-long swimming pool with a negative edge that visually blends with the water of the lake below," Wittman says.
"It's a large home, but it's also broken up into a series of pavilions, which gives it a more human scale. Two shed roofs frame a gabled volume, with glass panels connecting to slightly elevated roof planes." -Winn Wittman
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