Log House
Located forty miles north of Yellowstone Park in Livingston, Montana, the Log House questions and redefines the traditional notions of log construction. Hours of research, discussions, and visits to log suppliers went into understanding the material qualities of logs. A unique construction strategy was invented to minimize the logs’ tendency to shrink in their long direction. The logs were used as a skin, not as structure; a pole barn formed an inner skeleton to which hand-chinked logs were mechanically bolted.
Building materials were selected for their compatibility with the surrounding environs such as hand chinked dead lodge pole pine logs, pewter colored standing seam metal roofing, indigenous rocks and stones, fir and pine trim and decking, cleft slates and quartzite, as well as forged black iron and milled steel.