Contemporary Farm House

Accord, New York

2008

Passive solar principles guided the form of this house, set three feet into the ground to take advantage of the earth’s constant temperature and a large southern overhang, allowing the low winter sun to heat the concrete slab and keeping the high summer sun’s heat out of the home.  The house is a large shed form with a small second floor under a dormer with an opposing shed roof line, the mud room is approached via a sunken stone patio and the back of the house opens up to a large expanse of green fields and meadows.