Ideate Design Studio and Acorn Deck Housing Company craft an embedded home on the outskirts of Boston – The Architect’s Newspaper

Inserting a large 5,500-square-foot home into a particularly jagged hillside is no small task. For expert local prefabrication firm Acorn Deck House Company, the seemingly daunting undertaking required excavating and leveling a massive ledged rock. It was all worth it,Ideate Design Studiofounder and principalSashya Thind said. The home has great views.

Thind collaborated withAcorn Deck House Company Head of DesignMichael Hawke to create a holistic project that gives architecture and interior design equal footing.Located in Wellesley, Massachusettsa well-to-do suburb of Bostonthe new home casts an impressive profile but doesnt overwhelm its natural setting.

Indicative of the companys prevalent style, the paired-back scheme ensures that the home seamlessly situates into its natural surroundings. Demonstrating the best of the companys modular and panelized expertise, a two-tone wooden-clad facade helps elucidate the modernist structures many interlocking volumes. Inside, an exposed metal and wooden beam system plays host to a double-height, open-plan living and dining space but also helps segment-off the homes more intimate six bedrooms and five bathrooms.

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