Field House is a private residence located in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, designed in 2020 by Birdseye.

Description
Field House is a private residence located in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The house overlooks a large meadow to the west and is sited in the northeast corner of the parcel, nestled in a hillside forest of deciduous trees, mountain laurel, and rhododendron.
The house is designed to create an engaged relationship with the landscape. The architectural massing and articulation conceptually extend the composition into the field, while simultaneously integrating views that promote engagement with the outdoors. The residence is composed of two separate gable volumes: a two-story main house and a one-story garage knitted together with a perpendicular exterior walkway buttressed with an intermittent full-height site wall. The extended southern façade creates an entry defined by a series of gables and walls with purposeful horizontal and vertical reveals. The gable is cantilevered over the interior entry walkway and aligned flush over the landscape wall, creating a horizontal gap that intersects with the vertical slit in the wall. The layering of architectural elements and warmth of the contrasting cedar soffit of the gable combine for an evocative south entry arrival centered on the main axis of the house.
The garage wall extension, at the eastern end of the plan, creates a threshold to the private auto court entry by passing between the en...