Surrounded by protected land, this house in New Hope, Pennsylvania, sits at the top of a long winding gravel drive. The house embeds itself into the landscape, 3 gabled structures which stay low from the approach side and rise out of the hill with a careful sense of scale and connection to landscape.

Siting on top of and expanding the existing homes’ foundations, the project aims to minimize sitework and disruption to the existing ecosystem and natural drainage of the site. The space between architecture and landscape become blurred; beautifully landscaped “courtyards” are connected through covered porches that connect the front to the back seamlessly.

On the interior, function and simplicity in materials and lines provide calm spaces which always connect back to landscape both physically and through deliberate framed views.