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 Ken Gray and Joanne Baltz-Gray’s dream home started with a ramshackle, early 1900s farmhouse on a 22-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Fayetteville, Ark., and a progressive idea from a local architecture team. The Gray’s home is one of seclusion and serenity. It is an extension of its environment — simplistic and eco-friendly both in its design and daily operation.
The concept of the home is one that Tim Maddox, architect and project manager of DeNoble Architecture, describes as “Ozark Vernacular Modern.” It is the marriage of two ideas on opposite ends of the spectrum that, in this case, make for a blissful union. “Vernacular Modern takes from structures seen in rural areas, such as a simple shed. The outside of this structure has a very agricultural and industrial feel but the inside space implements a more modern, craftsman-style. The details are usually in the woodwork and the finishes.”
The DeNoble Architecture Web site explains the theory further: The employment [of vernacular and modernism] provides an opportunity to pursue sustainable practices rooted in spatial efficiency, material optimization, and contextual response. Our decisions are bound by rationale, not style; by efficiency, not pretense. It is our belief that an architecture of dignity emerges from these parallel ideals.
(Please see the August 2008 issue of AY magazine to read the article in its entirety)
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