After a tornado demolished a couple’s part-time residence, Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects was hired to rebuild the former cabin, other out buildings and much of the surrounding natural landscape.
The new cabin was placed atop a stone bluff which had been cleared of trees by the tornado and overlooked the former building site. This new location takes advantage of a previously hidden dramatic vista to the north which showcases views of a creek, pastoral fields in the valley floor below and mountain ridges beyond. Locating the new structure on this spot also allowed the building’s foundation to be directly anchored into the solid stone of the bluff.
The long, narrow site, which lays out in a desirable east-west orientation for employing sustainable / energy-savings strategies, is situated between an entry drive to the south, and the cliff face of the stone bluff to the north. T