Architects：
Architecture Firm

Location：
Scottsville, VA 24590, United States

Area
: 2200.0 ft2

Photographs: James Ewing

Builder: Peter Johnson Builders

The James RiverHouse was designed as a place for three young boys. It is a place wherethey can grow and learn from their surroundings - experience mud, moths, flowingwater, and the changing light of the seasons; a place that would allow for manygatherings of all the people who love them.

Three volumes hoverabove a bluff alongside a bend in the James River, arranged loosely and lightlyon the land like a scattered group of stones around a campfire.  As avisitor slips between the volumes, the house opens up to light and river viewsand the fully enveloping woods.

The quiet yet open interior isbuilt around a large and flexible gathering space that can be intimate,expansive, interior, or exterior. Flanked by sleeping quarters, this centralliving area is at once hearth, tree house, and dining hall and is the nexus ofactivity for the family and the three boys who fill the house with light andmotion.