Cranefly is on a north-facing Piedmont slope above a creek, on the edge between a field and a forest. The house is comprised of four pavilions – a studio carport, a guest house, the main living pavilion, and a private owners’ wing – that are separated by courtyards, shielded from public view by stone walls, and sheltered by a thin, broad CLT roof that slopes with the topography. Visitors arrive through the field to a parking court, pass through a low privacy wall into a native garden, and slip into a gap in the stone wall of the house to a courtyard connected with the creek. Entry to the main house reveals a warm, materially rich interior that is completely open to the forest. The house complex stretches along the topography to engage forest and field in various ways and establish privacy for sleeping pavilions at either end. The architecture of the house is experienced as an interplay between heavy stone walls, delicate wood and glass pavilions, and the singular plane of the roof.