Project Details
- Project Name
- Running Cedar
- Location
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Orlean ,VA ,United States
- Project Types
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Custom ,Guest House
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 6,400 sq. feet
- Shared by
- Editor
- Consultants
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General Contractor: Gretchen Yahn,Landscape Architect: Richard Arentz,Interior Designer: José Solis,Paul Burk Photography
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $1,900,800
Project Description
2009 RADA
Custom / More Than 3,500 Square Feet / Merit
The architect and the owner, a landscape architect, worked in tandem from day one of this project—and it shows. Perched on the edge of a river gorge, the house and guesthouse align from south to north and are linked by a stone wall that serves as a spine. In between, overlapping interior and exterior spaces keep the lush setting front and center.
“We'd flip things back and forth until we found a nice balance between the formality of the house and this pretty rough and rambunctious landscape,” says Richard Williams, AIA. “We looked at vernacular forms, stretching the dimensions to a point where it seemed spacious but never out of scale.”
One judge said the design “elevates the mundane Virginia farmhouse, yet does so with a complete lack of pretension.”
