Project: Silver Hill House
Architecture: Flavin Architects
General Contractor: Keystone Development
Structural Engineer: Webb Structural Services
Location: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States
Year: 2021
Photo Credits: Nat Rea Photography
Precise standing seam gable roofs and board-and-batten siding nod to the vernacular farmhouses of Lincoln, MA, where the Silver Hill House is located. A triangular wedge forms a canopy over the front door. Inside, the kitchen, dining, and living room spaces combine within a gable roofed pavilion. One of Flavin’s signature screens introduces an intimate scale over the kitchen island.
The fireplace and chimney are placed off center in the space to allow floor-to-ceiling, east-facing windows in the kitchen. Borrowing from architect Marcel Breuer’s iconic Cape Cod long houses, a boldly modern screen porch, supported on a steel tripod base, cantilevers into the adjacent tree canopy. The porch features ventilation on all four sides; ventilation is even provided between gaps in the screen-porch floor. The height of the cantilevered porch gives you the feeling of being immersed in the trees, while living lightly on the land.
