Rural Estate
The owners bought a five-acre tract of land in rural horse country northwest of Chicago, Illinois to design and build a ‘family compound’, one that would support their family of seven for years to come. It was vital that the residence was of a quality that would ‘last the test of time and that could be handed down, generation after generation’.
The house is happened upon, found in a clearing at the end of a long winding drive cut through the woods. The gentle and rolling open land influences the subtle level changes within the house that define the public and private spaces and shape its roof line.