The Farm

Architect Sven Matt mixed basic shapes with rich details in this Austrian home. The lattice shell was hewn from silver fir sourced from a nearby forest. Eternit shingles clad the roof.

The newly built house, just feet from the water’s edge, occupies the space where a decaying farmhouse once stood.

The first of the sister volumes contains the living areas, while the second houses the bedrooms and garage.

Tom Givone's current weekend abode, nicknamed the Floating Farmhouse, is—so far—his capstone project, a synthesis of personal taste, material experimentation, and historically sensitive restoration: a living laboratory for how to bring the vernacular past into the present.