Mischa Farrell Architect

The new site is a 10 acre orchard of large and venerable pecan trees bordered by a bayou on two sides, a horse pasture on a third and a country road. The old farm house is approached through an alleé of pecan trees, laid out in a formal 100 foot square grid. Set in the space between the points of the grid, the openings in the exterior walls suggest the orientation, with a generous porch facing the South and Sun Room clinging to the house on the East, small window openings and utility band of rooms on the North and finally smaller punched openings on the West. The salvage of an old camp house from the same former site, creates a courtyard with the farm house. A pond to the Southwest continues the grid, where one of the old Pecan trees is missing. In a gentle arc from the house, a horse stable shelters various farm animals adjacent to the pond. The Pastoral Life is nurtured again in a new location.