Aldo

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Concept

The long elevation of a single-storey house with a standing seam roof and a stone chimney, autumn woods behind
The terrace side of the house, with a table and loungers on the paving
Status
Concept
Location
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Role
Designer
Size
1,355 sf
Bedrooms
2 + office
Bathrooms
2 full
Sleeps
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Project narrative

The form is simple and honest - a tight rectangular plan under a steep gabled metal roof, clad in vertical cedar, with a fieldstone chimney rising through the ridge. Big windows and a covered deck push the living space out into the landscape, so the meadow and the hills read as part of the room rather than as a view from it.

Inside it opens up. Kitchen, dining and living run together under a vaulted wood ceiling, with the stone fireplace as the thing the rest of the room arranges itself around. The materials are plain on purpose: shiplap walls, wide-plank floors, hand-laid tile in the bath. The bedroom wing stays compact so the shared rooms can breathe, and the office sits at the gable end where the light is best.

Where it eventually sits will change the orientation, the grading and a good deal of the cost.

The living space, wood-lined, opening to a wall of glazing over the valley
The kitchen, dark cabinetry against pale wood, with a low bookshelf running under the windows
A bedroom with a corner window looking onto the field
A study lined with shelves, a desk set against the window
The house seen long and low across a meadow in autumn, its standing-seam roof running the length of the plan
The living end under the vaulted ceiling, a built-in bench along the glazing and the stone chimney at the far wall
The same kitchen in the darker material option, with stained cabinetry against the pine ceiling
The kitchen in its second material option
The bathroom lined in small green tile, with a wall-hung basin and a window above the tub
A cutaway axonometric of the whole plan, showing how the rooms sit along the rectangle under one roof