A client living in South Dakota was drawn to our work shaped in warmer climates, yet asked for a home firmly rooted in mid-century modern principles and adapted to a northern landscape. Above all, he sought to escape the oversized, generic McMansion typology common to the region.

The house is organized beneath a floating, timber-clad roof that defines the social spaces as a single, continuous volume. Panoramic triple-glazed windows dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, framing the snow-covered landscape while ensuring thermal comfort throughout the seasons. Thermal comfort is optimized with the use of a geothermal heating system.

Warm materials, low horizontal lines, and a calm structural rhythm ground the house in its setting—an architecture that feels both expansive and restrained, contemporary yet timeless, and deeply attuned to climate, light, and place