Massachusetts House

General Contractor

Quadresign
Chatham, New York

Sheet Metal Contractor

D.J. Wooliver & Sons, Inc.
Lanesborough, Massachusetts

Manufacturer

Revere Copper Products, Inc.
Rome, New York

This house in the Berkshires engages its wooded site through terraced gardens, a large south-facing porch and a wall of glass. The garden walls are built with stone salvaged from the foundations of a nearby ruin, and extend from the site through the house, organizing the interior spaces along the way. The simple form of the house, clad in copper, cedar shingles and mahogany-framed windows, connects the structure to equally simple New England precedents. A further nod to local precedent is made through the copper clad roof, dormers and chimney. Both stone and copper are used in the home's interior - the stone as interior walls and fireplace, and the copper in the fireplace, chimney and box bays containing the bookshelves in the living areas. All interior copper was treated to match the anticipated weathering of the exterior copper walls and roof, to allow a seamless integration of inside and out.

Design Team: Mark McInturff FAIA - Design Principal, Christopher Boyd AIA - Design Associate

Architectural Category: Standing Seam Roofs and Walls