Round Hill Pavilions

Status: Completed 2014

Team:

Peter Culley - Design Partner
Andrew Montgomery - Design Associate and Project Manager
James Hill - architect and technical design
Stacey Farinholt - Landscape Lead

Awards:

Honor Award for Excellence in Contextual Design recognized by Virginia Chapter AIA, 2014

Publications:

Photographer: James Hill / Andrew Montgomery

  • 1/ Building cluster

  • 1/ Through Living and Dining Pavilions to Kitchen

  • 1/ Through the Living Room

  • 1/ Kitchen view

  • 1/ Dining and Kitchen

  • 1/ From living to kitchen

  • 1/ Framed chestnut view

  • 1/ Spliced corner, Living Room

  • 1/ Fireplace detail

  • 1/ Fireplace detail

  • 1/ Kitchen detail

  • 1/ Framing the lake

  • 1/ Dining Pavilion Interior

  • 1/ Site Plan

  • 1/ Developed Surface Model

  • 1/ Developed Surface Model

  • 1/ View Corridor 'Cuts'

  • 1/ Timber Frame Construction

  • 1/ Section thro Living and Dining Pavilions

  • 1/ Section thro Kitchen and Dining Pavilions

  • 1/ Angled Jamb and Corner Plan Detail

  • 1/ Kitchen Elevations

  • 1/ Pavilions and Setting

  • 1/ Pavilion Composition

  • 1/ Dining Pavilion

  • 1/ Twilight at Roundhill

  • 1/ Up from the pond

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Status: Completed 2014

‘This is a marvelous project!’ – Helene Combs Dreiling, National President AIA 2014.

A collection of new structures responds to existing markers and creates new ones in this building and landscape masterplan in Orange, Virginia. Exploring the systems of the English Picturesque applied to a cluster of vernacular-inspired barns, the buildings and their setting are placed in a forced dialogue with dissecting view corridors and pathways. Three pavilions - the kitchen, the living room and the dining room - each eroded by the views the others reach towards, form a central gathering point that looks beyond towards a jetty on the pond, a privy in the woods, a bee keeper’s dell and a log store. The mile long approach to the pond across the farm has been reconsidered to form a constructed arrival experience. The site has been investigated as a series of ecological conditions - wet and dry hedgerow, wild meadow and woodland - with new plant materials and ground treatments to create and accentuate. The setting of the barns is informed entirely by the existing prompts of topography, water and forest. The pavilions are imagined almost as a contrived memory of structures that could have been on the site in the past, which were later adjusted to make the visual and programmatic connections.

Defining the setting for a cluster of new structures, the landscape masterplan uses systems from the 18th century English Picturesque to adjust and mould the existing setting creating long and close intense views around the pond of this Orange, VA adjacent farm. This system is also taken into the buildings as a conceptual driver of apertures and relationships back to points in the constructed landscape.

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Team:

Peter Culley - Design Partner
Andrew Montgomery - Design Associate and Project Manager
James Hill - architect and technical design
Stacey Farinholt - Landscape Lead

Awards:

Honor Award for Excellence in Contextual Design recognized by Virginia Chapter AIA, 2014

Publications:

Photographer: James Hill / Andrew Montgomery