Nick Noyes — Architect

“Our hope is that our projects are an authentic response to the site and, most importantly, to our clients’ aspirations.”

— Nick Noyes, architect


Programmatically, the residence needed to accommodate both space for family living and for the display of art. Formal gallery-like spaces (living room, dining room, and detached art barn) were minimally rendered with exposed ceiling structure, steel tie rods, gypsum board walls, and concrete floors. Alluding to the project’s modernist leanings, the free-plan nature of these spaces is contrasted spatially by the more cellular make-up family living areas. As one is welcomed into the formal entry, there is a choice to either head toward the gallery zones or into the more informal domestic zone of the house.

The house responds to regional conditions with an economy of means and restraint that allows for a contemporary expression of craft and materiality, all of which is rooted in an imaginative and insightful response to program, site, and context. Paramount in the process of creating this house was a commitment to bring meaning to the project through the aspirations of the owners, done by employing a collaborative process that delves deeply into the exploration of context, culture, program, and design. The result is a house with an enduring, timeless, and modern authenticity.

Photography by Matthew Millman

Photography by Matthew Millman

Photography by Matthew Millman