Wildcat Mountain Residence | The Plains, Virginia, Usa | 2018

Architects: David Jameson Architect
Client: Private
General Contractor: PureForm Builders
Photographer: Paul Warchol

Shaped largely by the site, the Wildcat Mountain Residence is conceptually a void space inserted between heavy stone walls.

The walls act as an orientation to the site while protecting distinct structures that allow the house to be divided spatially into the most public, most private, and an indoor/outdoor living pavilion that can become either or both.

The residual in-between spaces create outdoor rooms that engage the building.

While the stone walls are thought of as being of the earth and are articulated through their materials and shape as heavy, static pieces, the glazed public and private wings of the house act as lenses to the landscape.

The living pavilion is conceived as the center-piece of the concept and acts as a spatially dynamic volume uniting the heavy wall elements of the house, and a thin, glazed volume balanced above that rotates to refocus views to the Blue Ridge Mountains.