Private Residence

With its familiar New England features, this private residence is constructed in the tradition of American farmhouses built through a process of several additions. The first phase creates an economcal, two-story structure with kitchen and dining at the first floor, bedrooms above, and bathroom at the intermediate landing off the central stair. Single-span framing is cost-efficient and provides a sense of openness, and trapezoidal-shaped rooms are distinctive and feel more expansive than the traditional rectangle. The second phase creates a two-story height art studio/multi-purpose room linked to the main house by a pergola that, as construction continues, becomes the framing for the third phase of construction. Attached to the main house, the third volume incorporates a first floor living space with a small but spatial master bedroom above. The house configuration is oriented towards the rear yard, which in the final phase becomes a courtyard. Large windows open onto views of the courtyard, with smaller windows on the house’s other facades primarily for cross ventilation and vision glimpses.