West Texas House
West Texas This low lying house is designed to fit into its limestone based hillside with a long ledge cut into the hill from which a board formed wall of concrete acts as both retention wall and encourage a cooler interior environment. Low shed roofs with upturned edges direct rainwater into cisterns. Deep set porches […]
Spring Creek Residence
Livingston, Montana It is necessary to know when to respond with modesty over exuberance, no matter how talented a designer you are. There is a certain critical effort that must be made to design thoughtfully while at the same time working from a place of restraint. Not all creative answers should be dominate, some should […]
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Montana Pre-Fab
Park County, Montana This simple pre-fabricated house was conceived to perform with ultimate minimal impact on its landscape. Two volumes provide separation of public from private spaces with a large covered outdoor space for al-fresco living between. The two volumes are designed to be fully fabricated off-site and brought in and set upon removable helical […]
Hill Country House
Welfare, Texas The expression of this residence draws from the locally available limestone. Heavy walls of stone set in the old Spanish Mission manner provide a super insulated enclosure. A series of simple Gable roofs extend over deep porches blocking sun from penetrating the homes’s interior and extending outside living in a place that has […]
Bear Creek Studio
Bozeman, Montana This small modern guest house is designed to work for many uses, adjacent to the main house, but set off to create its own sense of being in the landscape looking toward Bear Creek. 660 SF with a sleeping loft above the bathroom, the guest house can provide sleeping space for 4 people. […]
Yellowstone River House
Park County, Montana Typical of so many rural farm homes in Montana, this house had many additions over its life-time. An original log cabin was still in use as the main living space, stacked 2×4 walls that looked like butcher block turned on its side made up the auxiliary rooms for pantry and storage […]
Yellowstone River Cabin
Park County, Montana Publications:Mountain Living, October 2008The New Western Home Two volumes combine with a “dog-trot” style indoor/outdoor connection to maximize the experience of this minimal foot print of this cabin. Setting the cabin above the FEMA flood line on steel piers whose extents were determined by two pre-existing cabin foundations allowed for rare […]
Bear Canyon House
Bozeman, Montana This 1967 modern house was designed in a Breueresque style, with a split level. The upstairs included all living and two bedrooms that had not been remodeled since constructed. Downstairs has two bedrooms, one bath and a large studio space. To bring the house up to date the top floor was completely reworked, […]
Clyde Park House
Clyde Park, Montana Publications:Off the Grid The seasonal changes in the northern rockies can be dynamic and extreme making an energy conscious house that also incorporates large views to surrounding mountains a challenge. The Clyde Park residence incorporates a straw bale stick-frame hybrid construction method to create a super insulated home that also incorporates large […]