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FACING PAGE: This home sits in a quiet cove on the Maryland's Eastern Shore,
so the idea of porch spaces were important when we designed it. The first floor
has an open plan with multiple sliding doors that turn the all-white interior into
a porch. A winding stair rises to two stacked bedrooms on the second and third
floors and continues to the rooftop pool. The structure is made of cross-braced
steel frames that support the weight on the roof; the frames impose themselves,
and are celebrated, throughout the plan.
ABOVE & RIGHT: White cedar shingles and stainless steel were used on the outside
of the home, and will weather naturally. There is no exterior paint or stain. Because
of the strict guidelines that protect the Chesapeake Bay, all of the design's decks,
porches, and terraces, as well as the mechanical systems, are stacked onto the small
footprint of the house. The allowable footprint for everything on the site is sized to
the lot's previous house—long gone, but excavated, surveyed, and documented.
The result is a modern ark-like design with 1,664 square feet of interior space.
Photographs by Julia Heine
