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Meadow Home
Saint Ignatius, Montana
The Meadow home is where Architecture and Landscape merge, in a Montana meadow. One folie in a multi-building retreat, the Meadow Home literally integrates its surrounding field of grasses and wildflowers into the structure through an undulating sod roof, which in plan is evocative of a spiral. Designed using sacred geometries, this home ties to earth and fire as it wraps a Russian fireplace, and opens to the path of the sun.
The home’s materials and systems are expressive of holistic resource conservation & awareness. The home is built of Rastra block, which is produced from recycled polystyrene waste, and also utilizes other site-sourced and recycled materials such as shingles and timbers. Thermal mass walls and bancos store & disperse passive solar heat, while a wastewater recycling system sustains an adjacent constructed wetland.
