Birdseye Design references local vernacular for secluded Vermont dwelling
American studio Birdseye Design has created a rural guest house in Vermont with hipped roofs and distinctive cladding, which evokes the traditional board-and-batten siding commonly found across New England.
The project, called Board + Batten, is located in Plymouth Notch ? a historic village in central Vermont. The guest house is situated at the edge of a mature forest that overlooks a private meadow.
The dwelling consists of two bars arranged in a T formation. One bar runs from east to west and contains the bedrooms, while the other stretches from north to south and serves as the public zone.
"Accessed by a narrow footpath, the secluded guest house is organised in a T-shaped symmetrical plan with bedrooms defining the edge of the forest and the living spaces projecting into the meadow," said Birdseye Design, a design-build studio based in Richmond, Vermont.
For exterior walls, the team took cues from traditional board-and-batten siding, a highly durable type of cladding that is ubiquitous in the region. The team wrapped the dwelling in dark-painted boards and mirror-polished stainless steel panels, along with windows of various sizes.
"Ranging from opaque to translucent to reflective, the siding creates a rich and textured surface that meaningfully integrates the house into the landscape," the studio said.
The home is topped with a standing-seam black metal roof that is hipped in all directions and has a "knife edge", meaning it has no fa...
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