The site is composed of six converted guest cabins (converted tobacco barns), dining/lounge cabin, and office/reception cabin. The office cabin is the oldest. The owner’s program stipulated that the existing office cabin, swimming pool and fencing be retained, and the 1960’s warehouse attached to the cabin be demolished, and the new innkeeper’s lodging adjoin the office cabin. The owner requested both sunlight and privacy off the bedrooms to the east while views of Pilot Mountain to the west from the public spaces: the library, living and guest bedroom. The client asked that his Jacobean furniture, books and Pre-Columbian and African artifact collections be incorporated into the design.
With the warehouse demolished, the architect created a ribbon of glass block to serve as a fluid backdrop and outgrowth to the adjacent guest and registration cabins and afford light and privacy within the bedrooms and atrium. The interior private spaces unfold spatially from bedroom to office to atrium to bedroom. The glass serpentine garden wall maintains a low profile behind and adjacent to the cabins as it snakes its way across the site.
