Philadelphia-based studio Metcalfe Architecture & Design has completed the Spence House project in 2009, located in Cornwall, a small town in Connecticut, USA. The house is designed as a sequence of spaces that provide intimate and expansive indoor and outdoor views for the owner’s daily movements from garage to interior and gardens. Soaring ceilings, sustainable materials and bursts of interior color make this a simple and comfortable home in the woods.The house stylistically references local agricultural sheds, using red cedar for its exterior and roof decking, fir framing, and a red standing seam metal roof. On its south side, rock outcrops shelter a sustainable garden of organic vegetables and flowers on raised beds. The wraparound deck of Ipe wood overlooks a stunning vista dotted with bird feeders and the occasional visiting bear.
