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The exterior details are a modern take on a woodland cabin. The deep eaves are simply detailed with a few layers of angular cedar boarding. The cedar clapboards are 8" to the weather, atypically broad, in order to accentuate the horizontal. Here the masonry is fieldstone with deeply raked joints, rustic, and contrasted with the crisp concrete slab at the chimney cap. Texture is added with the gridded lattice, armatures on which vines will grow. Color is brought in with the grey of the roof steel and the teal blue of the window sash.
T I A S Q U A M
This house is built on a clearing in the woods of West Tisbury. It looks out over a sloping meadow that drops down to the Tiasquam River.
The architecture is informed by regional influences, New England barns, mills and hunting camps. The standing seam metal roof with its deep eaves is a signature element; its verticality is balanced by the strong horizontal lines of the cedar clapboard. The fieldstone chimney provides a central focus, not only to the rooflines but as a centerpiece in the vaulted main living space. This central space has an upper monitor dormer that brings sunlight into the heart of the space below. The house frame is fir post-and-beam and is expressed as a structural design element throughout the interior.
My clients are a builder and a designer and both brought a lot to the design of the house. I very much enjoyed our collaboration and the house is the richer for it. Dyed concrete is a specialty of the builder and was used inside and out, in the countertops and hearth surround as well as on porch parapets, at window well surrounds and on the chimney cap. The interior finish carpentry is very fine; it serves as a nice backdrop to the textural and tonal complexities of the interior furnishings.
