House Over A Ravine, Richmond, MA

Date of Sketch: August 4, 2017

Houses are the piano compositions of architecture.  Some, like some of the works of Chopin, become iconic. And as with Chopin's compositions they can become the main focus and output of an architect's career.  As one approaches this house, it's barely noticed as it rises gently from a forest clearing.  One can take the path to the roof or choose to enter at grade.  It's form in plan stretches over a triangular ravine, with views down, but also out, towards a pond 60' below as the land falls away at the house's far end.