An addition and renovation, inspired by our clients’ deep connection to mountains as a source of energy and peace. The project was built in two stages so that the clients could live at home while the major renovations were carried out.
Stage one saw the construction of a striking black slate clad addition with a gentle monumentality, that reaches up into the canopy of a huge chestnut tree, like a shard of a mountain found here by design. It is poised alongside the original house with a spectacular glassy gallery between the building elements for a moment of immersion in the sky and landscape, and to look up at the shimmering slate surface. The boys’ rumpus room at the first floor of the addition is like a ‘treehouse’ immersed in the branches and changing foliage of the chestnut tree.