House in the Hill

Surrounded by a mature hill top wood, a re-imagined house emerges and engages with its surrounding landscape. This private residence for a family of 5 is sited on a property in the Carolinian woodland forest on the Fonthill kame. While nestled into a hill, the massing of the home speaks to the dichotomy of a curvilinear public north facing front and orthogonal fingers reaching out to the private forest facing south, with a central spine connecting these two distinctive volumes.