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.
The cabin is divided by a two-story living area with floor-to-ceiling glass that looks south to panoramas of a valley and mountains beyond. The eastern end contains a guest suite above a two-car garage, and to the west, a master suite is located above a kitchen with eat-in dining.