Houses · Autumn issue

A House in the Hills

Two architects spent six years on one low house of glass and larch, built around the view and not the other way round.

“We drew the windows first and the walls last.”

By Clara Venn · Photographs by Otto Lind

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A low glass house glowing at dusk among trees

Fig. 1The glass room at dusk

A long timber facade of larch boards under a blue sky

Fig. 2Larch on the north side

A small square window set in a white plaster wall

Fig. 3A study window