Project Details
- Project Name
- Spence House
- Location
-
Cornwall ,CT ,United States
- Project Types
- Custom
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 2,974 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2011
- Shared by
- Rachel Barron
- Consultants
- Landscape Architect: Green View Building and Design Company
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $200
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
Builder's Choice and Custom Home Awards Finalist
Site: The richest experiences happen at the edges of environments. This house is situated on a woodland rock outcropping looking out to field, swamp and beyond providing intimate and long distance glimpses of the forest and its animals.
Movement: We created excitement with mundane means-a refreshing daily trip from garage to house, revealing a series of views-intimate garden, to the low ceilinged entry, to dramatic, framed interior and exterior vistas.
Architectural Language: The design celebrates simplicity, avoiding competition with its dramatic site. It references humble local agricultural sheds and their materials- Red Cedar, Fir and standing seam metal roofing.
Color: Its simple white interior uses punches of color to animate its inside layers.
Size: High ceilings and long views create a comfortable small house.
Sustainability: We created a house of naturally rot resistant Red Cedar, a hyper-insulated envelope, sun drenching windows, radiant heated floors, local wide plank Ash flooring, sustainable Ipe decking, environmentally friendly Quartzite counters and no VOC finishes along with a garden of organic vegetables and flowers on raised beds.
