House in the Meadows

The clients, a couple without children, wanted a home no larger than necessary, organised around three simple functions: living, sleeping and eating. The design translates this modest brief into a sequence of spaces where roof height and curved walls choreograph the experience of moving through the house and looking out over the landscape.

Details were developed together with the residents and grew out of personal memories and small daily rituals: a long bench in the dining area that continues outside, a window seat facing the setting sun, a round window that lets you see who is at the door, a toilet with two entrances, and a wall lamp shaped like a constellation emerging from the brick.

The folded roof, inspired by Isamu Noguchi's sculpture Orpheus, was developed through study models that first tested three separate roofs before merging them into one continuous form.