Sadieville, Kentucky 1994
As the architect for this cabin-in-the forest, I was drawn again to the folk houses of the Old South. The dogtrot, the saddlebag, the shotgun and the double-pen were plan-forms that rolled around in my memory and provided a poetic source for the strategy used to fashion the early sketches for this project.

The site is on the crest of a Kentucky knob located above Eagle Creek in the Eden Hills of Scott County. The plan consists of two identical gabled volumes, each twenty by thirty feet. The five-foot zone that separates the two pieces probably recalls the dogtrot space seen in many early southern houses.

The volume to the south contains all the community functions—living, cooking, dining—and the volume to the north contains the more private activities—four sleeping rooms and two baths.