Tour a Modernist Home in Michigan That Blends in With the Surrounding Oaks
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After purchasing a 2.6-acre lot abutting a favorite golf course in their hometown, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, residents Geoff and Heather were at a crossroads. Should they build a new house overlooking the fairways or remain in their local Georgian Revival that Heather describes as “the kind of home you dream of as a little girl”? “I wanted to stay, and Geoff wanted to build. Because we couldn’t agree, eventually we let the market decide,” Heather says. They listed both properties on the same day, and within hours there was an all-cash bid on the century-old residence. The offer required closing by month’s end, so the couple hustled their son and daughter and the family’s belongings into a nearby rental house and got to work on finding an architect.
The decision to create a house from scratch may have befallen Geoff and Heather with unusual swiftness, but it didn’t catch them off guard. Indeed, for the year leading up to their real-estate coin flip, the husband and wife had been amassing a Pinterest board of model projects. “Whether the architectural style was modern or traditional, we wanted it to look like it was growing out of the land,” Heather says.
Geoff admired the strikingly modernist portfolio of Bates Masi Architects, and then learned about Adam Jordan, a young architect from the firm who had recently gone out on his own. Geoff reached out to Jordan, whose eponymous studio is located in Water Mill, New York, and invited him to Michigan to consider a commission.
One approaches the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, house designed by Adam Jordan from the east and north. A country club’s fairway glances past the building’s west elevation, whereas a stand of 100-year-old red oaks provides a buffer between the south elevation and the links. Landscape design by Dul Landscape Architecture.
When Jordan arrived in Bloomfield Hills, he got a literal lay of the land—“there’s a surprising amount of topography,” he says of the acreage—as well as a walkthrough of Cranbrook Schools to set a design direction for the residence. The client’s children had attended the famed institution’s lower schools and, Heather explains, “While we have many favorite spots, we’re almost desensitized to it. We wanted to see what popped out to Adam.”