The clients imagined a house that greatly favored family life, designed to give great importance to receiving their guests, and one where many different activities could coexist simultaneously.
A family with two young boys, wanted a vacation house built on undeveloped land near Acadia National Park. The property is in a remote forest at the end of a peninsula, with eastern views to the mountains and western views across Somes Sound.
In a wood lined field, near Wanaka’s lake edge, the Wanaka Crib is composed of two gables and a chisel roof slipping past one another to make three enclosed courtyards. Each courtyard creates a specific relationship with the interior.
The Green Camp features rectangular forms that seem to have been pushed and pulled out of the floor plan, flat roofs at varying heights, and numerous floor-to- ceiling windows. The stained green eastern white cedar has random-widths and the windows are recessed in the double stud wall construction.
An extraordinary place in the southern part of the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy. Mountain landscape with almost no other buildings nearby – with the exception of just few scattered homesteads.
Situated on ten acres at the meeting of two rivers near Whitefish, Montana, Confluence House is a fly fisherman’s dream. Conceived as a getaway for family and friends, the home’s design is derived and influenced by the geophysics of the surrounding landscape
Z House is an alpine holiday home, a place to live an intense relationship with nature and the mountains. The site on which the house is placed is a complex place with a steep slope, access uphill, a few buildings around and full of panoramic “frameworks”.
The Wilderness Ridge House by Reid Smith Architects sits gracefully within the woods of the Club at Spanish Peaks in Big Sky, Montana. This distinctive home pushes the boundaries of mountain modern design, offering a sleek yet grounded presence. Perched on a steep hillside, the house provides sweeping views from Lone Peak to Yellowstone Park
