Green Hill House
I have lost track of the dates, but sometime around 1990 I saw the completion of this last of five house design projects. Architects I worked for allowed me to design houses quite independently. The projects span from 1982 when I designed a solar-heated, looks-like-Vermont-farm-house for Ken Wilson, a physicist who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics to this house I call the Green Hill House.
Those who have not experienced it may never understand, but the thing about this type of house is, "There are few precedents." Every detail has to be designed explicitly by the architect and family, or it has to be left for the carpenter to design. Someone has to do it. In this case the carpenters were wonderful designers and their design participation was more than welcome.
In sequence, the four photographcs take you from outside below the house - around to the porch on the uphill side - onto the "bridge" between the parent and children sides of the upstairs, looking down into the living room - into the living room with a glimpse of the bridge in the top right. As you see, every detail belongs to the house.
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Last update November 16, 2005