A black gabled house under hardwoods, the ground around it still open.

01SignatureSite visit

Falcon’s Perch

Amy Reynolds

A Signature House, carried onto a wooded lot. The interior is furnished. Outside, the ground is still open, and the oaks are still overhead.

Began as
Signature House

Falcon’s Perch, as drawn

Program
2 bed · 2 bath · 1,488 sf

As drawn, loft or basement. Built program to be confirmed.

Place
To be confirmed

Region only. We do not publish addresses.

Timeline
To be confirmed

First walk to furnished interior. Dates from the build record.

Design
HUT

Architecture and interiors, as one.

Build
To be confirmed

Licensed local professionals permit and build.

01How it began

Chosen as drawn, then set on this land.

The design is Falcon’s Perch. What changed between the drawing and this lot is written here once we have it.

DrawingPlan

The floor plan, as drawn. Not yet in the archive.

DrawingSite plan

The house set under the trees that stayed. Contours, drive, porch.

DrawingSketch

First study of the long gable and the porch.
On the plan
To be written
On the land
To be written
Interiors
To be written

02The land

A cleared pad under the oaks.

The subfloor on the foundation, set in the oaks, the ground still bare.
The pad
The gable wrapped, standing among the oaks, leaves on the ground.
In the oaks

PhotographAerial

Drone still of the pad under the canopy. To be flown.

The pad is poured under the oaks that stayed. Which trees were kept, where the porch faces, and where the water goes are written here once the record is complete.

03Building

Frame, roof, then the room.

The visits caught the raising, the roof from inside the room, and the fit-out. Dates come from the build record.

  1. To be confirmed

    Foundation

    The pad, with the subfloor on.
    Foundation and subfloor under the oaks.
    The pad
  2. To be confirmed

    Framing

    The gable goes up between the oaks.
    The roof being raised, trusses going on between the trees.
    Raising
    Inside the gable while the roof is still open rafters.
    Inside
  3. To be confirmed

    Roof

    The deck, seen from inside the room.
    The full roof structure over the great room, loft wall framed below it.
    The room
    The roof deck from the other end of the room, windows open to the trees.
    From inside
  4. To be confirmed

    Fit-out

    Cabinets in. The scaffold is still in the room.
    The kitchen during fit-out: sage cabinets, island carcass, scaffold at the left.
    Kitchen

04The house

Furnished inside. Open ground outside.

The great room furnished, the kitchen beyond, under the vault.
Great room
Leather sofas facing a black fireplace, doors open to the trees.
Fireplace

FilmThe house, in one take

A slow walk from the pad, under the porch, into the great room. To be filmed.

05The people

In the owners’ words.

Recorded on site. Published with permission.

Sample quote. Replace with the owners’ words, recorded on site, published with their permission.

The ownersInterview · To be recorded

Sample quote. What they would tell someone standing under these trees, deciding.

The ownersInterview · To be recorded

AudioInterview

A short film or audio piece, 2–3 minutes, on site.

06Journal

Written along the way.

07Where it stands

The record.

  1. To be confirmedSite visitThe lot walked. Hardwoods overhead, the pad cleared.
  2. To be confirmedIn constructionRoof framed, then decked. Photographed from inside the room.
  3. To be confirmedIn constructionKitchen fit-out. Scaffold still in the room.
  4. To be confirmedSite visitInterior furnished. The ground outside still open.

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