John Ford on location in Monument Valley; reputedly his favorite shooting location

American filmmaker John Ford photographed the rough-hewn American landscape and inspired by creating film sequences that juxtaposed domestic interiors to vast exterior landscapes.  hMa offers clients access to the American landscape through carefully constructed interiors and exterior connections as well.

Intimate domestic interior; Holley House by hMa

The stair at Holley House offers an element that engages a natural site.  The stair engages an outdoor path to the east of the house that wends its way west down, through the living room, past a rough hewn stone fireplace, and out through a living room door, and down to a pond 30 feet below. 

Opening to outside; Holley House by hMa

Photos show two wall planes at the edge between the kitchen and dining area.  These planes engage a domestic aperture that – in the closed position – block the path and create an intimate, domestically scaled interior;  or open to allow the extension of the space of the house’s site.  The house was designed to open itself to its fifty acres of wooded landscape that extend the house boundaries into an unbounded landscape, but also to close itself off, when a more intimate setting is desired. 

Fully connected to Nature/path; Holley House by hMa