Modern Farmhouse

Precise standing seam gable roofs and board-and-batten siding nod to the vernacular farmhouses of Lincoln, MA, where the house is located. A triangular wedge forms a canopy over the front door. Inside, the kitchen, dining, and living room spaces combine within a gable roofed pavilion. One of Flavin’s signature screens introduces an intimate scale over the kitchen island. The fireplace and chimney are placed off center in the space to allow floor-to-ceiling, east-facing windows in the kitchen. Borrowing from architect Marcel Breuer’s iconic Cape Cod long houses, a boldly modern screen porch, supported on a steel tripod base, cantilevers into the adjacent tree canopy. Connected to the house by a screened-in passage, the porch features ventilation on all four sides. Ventilation is even provided between gaps in the screen-porch floorboards.