Outdoor Showers Perspectives
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osterville, Cape Cod
• The need for an al fresco site to conveniently sluice off salt, sand, and sweat is a surefire indicator that you are lucky enough to be spending time seaside . . . or in some other, equally fun, watery vacation spot. Utility alone, though, is never enough for the best designers on the Cape and the islands; they insist on mixing art with efficiency to make cleaning up a treat for both body and mind. Here are a few favorite bathing beauties our editors have come across recently.
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Kyle Hoepner |
Needed: an enclosure to camouflage three different functional elements of varying heights (trash bins, an air-conditioning condenser, and a shower). So why not turn it into a fetching latticework whale? This whimsical cetacean faces the water, so bathers can peer through its eye to catch views of the adjoining dining pergola and the bay beyond.
Ar C hite C ture: John DaSilva, Polhemus Savery DaSilva
Architects Builders, East Harwich, Massachusetts, psdab.com
Builder: Polhemus Savery DaSilva
Photogr AP hy: Randall Perry
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Falmouth, Cape Cod
Anchoring a pool area that overlooks the racing sailboats of Quissett Harbor, this shower is integrated into a unified architectural statement: the repeating brawny joists crowning the structure have the same width as the cedar boards of its walls and the forms that were used to create the marvelously rough concrete backdrop that shelters the space from the surrounding woods.
Ar C hite C ture: Matt Schiffer, Hutker Architects, Falmouth, Massachusetts, hutkerarchitects.com
Builder: C.H. Newton Builders, West Falmouth, Massachusetts, chnewton.com
Photogr AP hy: Brian Vanden Brink