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Shenandoah House, a home and writer9s retreat,
unfolds over a slope of the Allegheny Mountains
in Virginia. The three-bedroom, energy-eïcient
home organizes spaces along a single corridor
aligned with the contour of the hilltop site. Rooms
extend out from this central spine, creating garden
pockets between each space on both sides of the
home, and the windows framing the ends create a
telescope efect, focusing on the dense forest at one
end and on the surrounding meadow on the other.
Inside, the sculptural roof informs the organization
of each room. No oxtures interrupt the ceilings,
and lighting emerges through slots at the ceiling
edge. Quasi-furniture objects of wood, stone, and
concrete provide texture across the home, while
locally sourced soapstone punctuates the oreplace
volume and bamboo clads the sprawling noor.
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