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When you hear the name Hammock House, you may envision Vienna’s hammock-filled public pavilion, but this modern home near the Blue Ridge Mountains is a far more private and practical abode. Designed by Asheville-based Samsel Architects, the home stays true to its name, where, according to the studio, “Hammocks and an ancient oak tree were the organizing principle.”
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The old white oak helped to inform the home’s L-shaped layout (it’s growing roughly where the fourth corner would be) and the hammock takes center stage in an enormous and airy screened porch. The house has a single-pitch shed roof inspired by local farm structures, and the interior was organized so that visitors walk through progressively taller and taller rooms until they reach the hammock.
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The home features shared spaces (open-plan kitchen, dining room, windowed living room, and hammock porch) in one wing and private spaces (master bedroom, second bedroom, den, and studio) in the other—so as to ensure a harmonious living arrangement between the clients, a couple, and the wife’s parents, who also live in the home.
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The exterior is clad in a combination of timber siding and tan-painted panels. The base of the home is surrounded by rocks to help keep moisture away from the foundation.
Via: Dezeen