The Roscoe Mountain House is a ground-up home in the Catskills hamlet of Roscoe. The house’s layout and palette were informed by the surrounding landscape and by 19th century stone walls that terrace the property, integrating these remnants of the region’s farming history into a deeply site-specific design.

Two interlinking volumes build off the existing stone walls, orienting the house toward surrounding views through floor-to-ceiling glazing. The upper level is designed for entertaining, with an open kitchen, living, and dining area overlooking the adjacent lake, and a landscaped roof that conceals the lower volume below. A stone staircase descends to this second volume, tucked into the hillside—home to quiet bedrooms and workspaces rendered in concrete and oriented toward the surrounding valley and gorge.