Cordova Farm

Cordova, Maryland. Gardner Architects LLC.

A modern addition touches lightly on the existing farmhouse creating a clear separation between new and old. A new Family Room reaches out into the farmland by seamlessly connecting the interior and exterior. The new pool extends the new volume out into the landscape, terminating in a concrete plank windbreak wall. This wall marks the distinction between the manicured landscape and the farmland with a tall corn stalk wall division.

Cordova Farm project comprises an addition that marries a porch with a family room with a pool house. A modern addition to a farmhouse amidst cornfi elds, the interior space of the family room opens up directly to a pool. The “exterior room” in which the pool sits is shaped by a wind wall to the northwest, and two planted berms raising the pool terrace to be at the level of the family room.

When the bifold doors are folded open, the spaces fl ow one into the other, bringing the cornfields beyond into the family room. A daringly cantilevered roof hovers over a terrace, seeming to draw the pool into the interior. Materials, especially the fl oor and terrace, support the blurring of the exterior and the interior.

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