A client shared his knowledge of this house in Woodstock with us today.  I don’t have a lot to say about it other than I always feel like it’d be nice to get a project like this.  I hear that residential architecture is a pain in the ass.  I also understand the desire to produce socially responsible habitat – which is to say, plopping a single family home (often a second or third mostly unoccupied home) down on 210 acres and spending millions of dollars doing so is grossly neglectful where there are so many people struggling with so little.

Be that as it may, I find myself drawn to it.  Residential building, I mean.  I’m not really saying I’m interested in throwing 10,000 square feet down for two people to live in.  I subscribe more to small and well built homes. I do like the intimacy of the residential project.  Or at least what I perceive to be the intimacy.

As ultimately unsustainable as it is, I would love to have some rolling hills and a pond to call my own.

Anyway, I’m posting this really just because it’s a video.  I think I like the ideas and the exterior shape of this project more than I like the final result.  Something is nagging at me.  I think it’s the main living space and some of the detailing. I’m very bad at detailing. 

I’d definitely move in though. And happily I’ve discovered a new website for architecture where I picked up the video. You can also link to the owner’s Flickr through there.