The transition between cultivated lawn and rougher stream landscape is where the space of contraction occurs. … twisting the vertical “facade” and “urbane” wall of the 19th century farmhouse vocabulary with its very separate interior and exterior spaces and releasing into the open, inside-outside relationship and horizontal extension of the main living spaces into the woodlands. This transition occurs in structure as well, moving from a conventional wood frame into an entirely cantilevered, partially exposed frame supported on paired steel columns, which play with the landscape of trees beyond.