Strever Farm Longhouse is a project where architecture, landscape, agriculture, art and nature merge. Half of the land is a forest and half agricultural fields, a local farmer is involve in the care of these prime soils. He advised on some tilling to oxygenate the top layer, and stressed the arrowheads that would appear in the process should be collected. There is a Moravian/Mohican Monument across the land, these lands were scenarios of daily life and battlefields for the Mohicans (People of the River) and their northern neighbors, the Iroquois (People of the Longhouse). The later were structures from 600 years ago yet extremely modern in formal language. With a very clear and simple geometry they dealt with the tough winter by having a vaulted ceiling. The direction was clear, to build a longhouse of today’s world with local knowledge to create a resilient structure that follows the passive solar home principles. We adopted the classical american wood framing construction with LSL engineered wood studs and developed a continuous insulated envelope from walls to the roof. Paired with overhangs at every southern window the assembly delays the passage of heat during the hot summer days but allows the winter sun to heat the concrete slabs, releasing the warm energy at night using the concrete slab's thermal mass. The Longhouse is an entire system where the continuous envelope, the thermal mass and the radiant floors create a resilient structure that can stand extreme heat and humidity in the summer and extreme low temperatures and humidity in the winter. The structure is an understated bar that camouflages with the forest during fall and spring and quietly dialogues with its surroundings during the winter and summer months giving the longhouse a different presence as it marks the passage of time.