Andrew Berman Architect has designed this a small structure whose primary function would be to serve as a study. The study is situated at the elevation of the tree canopies at the threshold between a open field with an orchard, and a densely wooded area.

The exterior is sheathed in copper, and left to weather. The east facade, the building’s front, is, in fact, no more than a single three-foot-wide-by-12-foot-high wood-framed glass door. Angled out from it are the south and north facades.

The building was conceived as a simple structure with a mutable presence in the landscape. It maps a path from the open filed, through a doorway at the edge of the woods, to a light filled space set in the tree canopy.

Berman suggested to his clients that the building first present itself in the landscape as a symbolic door to the woods—a poetic idea they liked. The resulting V-shape contains a double-height entrance hall and stair, the bath and the kitchen. The rear half of the structure, where Berman situated the study and entertainment areas, takes on a trapezoidal form. Much of its second floor is cantilevered, which not only minimizes the building’s intrusion on the landscape but also establishes a covered patio space on the ground level.

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Photos by Michael Moran