IDAHO HOUSE
This little house in Ferdinand, Idaho is located at the crest of a series of knolls rising up from, and looking out over, a vast space of rolling northern wheat-growing country ending in a distant wall of mountains. The main high wall (‘backstop’) of the house faces south gathering light and heat (stored in a masonry wall just inside the outside wall) and the rest of the spaces view out north, east and west, into the prairie. The central axis of the house aligns far out in the prairie with a large railroad bridge crossing a valley. The second floor deck on the roof of the ‘porte cochere’ faces south and towards an intimate view up into the ascending knolls.
