Pantuhova House

1989 Hinesburg, VT
3BR Private home with office.  $160K
Principal: Michael Wisniewski

The owner desired a 3BR house with an office/den. She wanted it to feel like an open, light filled, modern interpretation of a white clapboard Vermont farmhouse with a painted metal roof. The 15 acre site has fine views and southern exposure, mostly open meadow but areas of tree cover. Part of the process was to decide where best to site it and how to integrate the office/den with living while at the same time having visitors to the office not intrude on living space.

Following precedent, we sited the house at the edge of the meadow and treeline so it became part of the landscape rather than an object sitting upon it. An apple orchard surrounding the house was proposed to further integrate it into the tree edge, but was never planted. The house plan is layered to separate office and living functions and to create zones to pass through before the view of Camel’s Hump is revealed. The composition recalls agricultural structures, including paintings by Cynthia Price and renaissance paintings of the annunciation.