The Pond House was conceived as a series of bars, offset to create outdoor courtyards and to take advantage of the views provided by the existing landscape.
The house is sited at the edge of a hardwood forest and an abandoned farm. Sitting atop a hill, the views to the East and North are of the meadow - restored to perrenial grassland prairie - and the pond which was once used as the primary water source for the farm. Views to the West are framed, like photographs, of the variety of tree species of the old growth hardwood forest.
The house integrates with the existing topography and takes material cues from the history of the land. A rubble stone retaining wall mimics the existing field stone walls seen around the property. Dark stained wood siding and the simple gable forms are inspired by the simple structures which once occupied this land.
