Glass-Enclosed Rooms Feel Like They’re Floating at This Olson Kundig Home in Virginia
Wings of the cruciform residence jut out over the landscape on stilts to capture panoramic views.
Wings of the cruciform residence jut out over the landscape on stilts to capture panoramic views.
Architect Tom Kundig of Seattle firm Olson Kundig has designed homes all over the world, but when the opportunity came to create what became the Blue Ridge House on vineyard land in Delaplane, Virginia, 50, miles west of Washington, D.C., "I honestly couldn’t have been more excited," he recalls. "That landscape is so freaking beautiful. I lucked out."
The Blue Ridge House was built on a gently sloping hill at the intersection of a vineyard and woodlands.
Photo: Eric Petschek
At one end of the house, the home's glass-ensconced living room extends over the hillside, anchored by a steel-reinforced concrete chimney.
Photo: Eric Petschek
The Blue Ridge House is perched atop a grass-and-tree-covered hillside overlooking a winery owned by Kundig’s clients, a couple with four kids. The couple reached out to his firm for what they do best. From a tree house in Costa Rica to a steel-clad cabin in Vermont, Olson Kundig’s homes are kinetic and serene, responding to their surrounding landscapes with tactile materials and blurring the boundaries of indoor and outdoor space.
The home is entered from a small landing on the lower level, just to the right of a carport formed by a wing of the home that juts out from the hillside.
Photo: Eric Petschek
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