Haas Valley Farm in Potosi, Wisconsin Weekend Getaway, USA Architecture, American Home, Building Photos
Haas Valley Farm in Potosi, Wisconsin
Jan 4, 2022
Architecture: Searl Lamaster Howe Architects
Location: Potosi, Wisconsin, United States of America

Photos by Tony Soluri
The brief for Haas Valley Farm was to design a weekend getaway for a Chicago area family on property that has been in their extended family for generations.

Haas Valley Farm, Potosi
Tall and thin, the Haas Valley Farm Residence perches on its site which is centered in the Driftless Area, a small pocket of the Midwest so named because the glaciers skipped over the region, leaving a surprising landscape of rolling hills and deep valleys bisected by the Mississippi River.
The weekend getaway?s long and linear exterior stretches across a meadow offering views down to Grant River on one side and up to a limestone crested ridge on the other.

The house?s form is simple yet jogs and intertwines to identify the spaces inside ? the stair slice buffers the sleeping and bathing side form the social side of the house, containing a double story great room whose low roof shoots out to shelter the screened porch. The kitchen is nestled under an upstairs bedroom off the living/dining area, creating a dramatic change in scale between the spaces.

The foyer is also sheltered by a low roof which extends beyond the primary eave, bringing the ceiling lower over the entry bench across from the stair for a more intimate...