This residence designed by Washington, D.C.'s, Travis Price dramatically merges the house with its landscape. Modern houses with glass walls framing horizontal views of the surroundings are nothing new, but designing the house around the trees in the forest certainly is. It's like deflected modernism, something that extends to the use of large timber members and wood surfaces above the glass walls. The residents of this house don't look at the trees so much as through them.
While the approach is practical, the effect of encasing these trees in glass elevates them to museumworthy objects and makes them seem like treasured sculptures.
Trees growing through and isolated from interior inside vertical glass chanels . Lower walls are glass and steel. Upper walls and ceiling lined with wide boards. Exposed wooden cross beams.