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Junegrass House

  • Prize
    Winner in House Interior Design
  • Company/Firm
    Messana O'Rorke
  • Designer
    Brian Messana & Toby O'Rorke
  • Photo Credit
    Tuck Fauntleroy
  • Location
    Jackson, Wyoming
  • Project Date
    June 2021
  • Client
    NA
  • Project Link
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How does one marshal the most traditional buildings materials and architectural details—stone, wood, pitched roofs—into a house that functions and feels distinctly modern? Working within the manifold constraints of community design guidelines, we designed a house that feels at one with its rugged mountain setting and respects the traditional character of the neighboring residences, all without compromising our fastidious approach to space planning and form-making. Inspired by the humble vernacular residences of nearby Mormon Row—a late-frontier Wyoming settlement built by members of the Church of Latter Day Saints—our design straddles the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, resolving the potentially contradictory demands of contextual sensitivity and contemporary brio.
To lighten the visual impact of the 5,000-square-foot residence, we broke the structure down into four volumes connected by see-through glass bridges that buoy the impression of independent pavilions arrayed in a line. The house is variously clad in stained cedar and stone, again accentuating the individual identities of the pavilions.


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