Two doors down from a Harwell Hamilton Harris designed church; the lot was undeveloped due to a stream and surrounding riparian buffer. When recombined with adjoining fragments, the lot became one of four eligible for construction. Set deep off the road, the entry occurs from the south, bridging an existing creek and running through a one hundred foot buffer pine grove of trees to arrive at the residence. Designed to serve as both house and studio, the residence is two pieces: an elevated tube for working and a wrapping tube for living.

The length of the site established long views to the front and back of the property, with limited lateral expanses. Heavily wood from being undeveloped, the house sits as gently into the landscape as possible, neither disturbing the local topography nor the plantings. The yard is regulated to a small formal lawn along the studio and an ornamental courtyard formed by the wrapping living tube.

Form + Space: The house was conceived of as a single volumetric bar modified by a series of breaks and folds, with two jewel planes that articulate the vertical circulation, and three chromed columns that celebrate structural spans. The primal architectural components of line, plane, and volume are expressed though column, wall, and enclosure.

Folded repeatedly back upon itself, the linear volume of the house encloses a courtyard viewable on three sides and open to the adjacent woods on the fourth. The folding tube expands vertically to create double height spaces for formal living and dining spaces as well as a two-story library and gallery.

Material + Construction: Clad in flush mounted modular cementious panels, the caulked factory joints present a monolithic form that sits quietly against the density of the heavily wooded site. Two shingled corten steel walls parallel the vertical circulation and extend the linear motion of the house. The volume of the house and lightweight concrete decks float on a recessed masonry block foundation wall

Flush mounted aluminum sash windows aligned with the panel module of the cladding to reinforce the tautness of the skin. Interior spaces are programmatically subdivided into service spaces [with slate flooring and full-height suspended sliding doors] and served spaces [with oak floors with pivot doors].