Baltimore County Residence

Our initial site visits to the Plank residence revealed a home site that seemed unresolved as the house sat isolated and placeless in the landscape. What intuitively felt like an old farmstead looked like a modern home in the midst of rural development.

Alongside the architecture team and groundskeepers, we set out to reveal and articulate the context and pastoral Piedmont landscape from which this dwelling, formerly a horse barn, arises. The outdoor spaces/rooms and the circulation paths are now clearly distinguished. Careful consideration of edges, adjacencies and intersections of these areas create easy and instinctive movement to and from the house, its outdoor rooms and the larger pastoral landscape. The site's agrarian past informs the definition of such spaces, blending architecture with the immediate landscape and larger pastoral context.

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ADDRESS: 111 3rd Street, SE / Charlottesville, Virginia 22902