Architect Visit: Aging in Place in the Berkshires, Modern Barn Edition
When a retired couple approached Brooklyn-based O’Neill Rose Architects with a prime property in the Berkshires?a sloping meadow leading to a pond?they had a specific vision in mind: He wanted to devote his days to gardening and watching his orchard grow; she planned to hike and canoe. But rather than cozy and rustic, the house they had in mind was clean-lined and expansive.
Devin O’Neill and Faith Rose, a husband-and-wife team themselves, responded by creating a single-story, barn-style structure that stands astride a ridge, a low-impact structure that “floats above the landscape,” as they say. And everything in it is designed to allow the couple to age gracefully at home while communing with the nature all around them. Photography by Michael Moran.
Above: A footbridge leads to the front door. The house is clad with ebony-stained cypress and has a standing seam metal roof with solar panels that provide electricity and energy for heat and hot water.
“Our clients wanted the house to be as responsible as possible to the larger environment as well as to the site it sits on,” O’Neill told us. The architects tripled the number of solar panels required for a house this size?”the excess energy is sent back to the electrical grid”?and doubled the insulation (a soy-based spray foam) to keep energy use down. The water supply is on site, and the roof runoff feeds the plantings.
Above: The 3,000-square-foot house opens to a ...
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