A Sun Valley house split into three barns

Field Architecture’s Three Barns sits in the meadows of Sun Valley as a cluster of three gabled buildings, each turned slightly differently to meet the site. The forms borrow from the region’s agricultural barns, but the bigger idea is topographic: instead of flattening the hillside, the house follows its existing benches, drainage lines and movement. The result is a home that reads a little like its own mountain range, low against the valley and tuned to the landscape around it.

Each volume has a distinct role and its own relationship to light and view. One contains the bedrooms, another the kitchen and dining spaces for gathering, and the third the entry sequence and main living room. Moving between them is part of the point. Field Architecture says the circulation is meant as an encounter with the land, with glazed breezeways that make residents step briefly back into the open air and meadow.

Inside, the mood is contemporary but robust, designed for year-round use in an alpine setting. Three chimneys in local stone mark each barn and gently announce the house in the landscape. It is a private home, not somewhere to visit, but worth reading for anyone interested in houses that let terrain set the plan rather than the other way round.

Our summary of a story from Wallpaper*, published 7 October 2026. Read the original

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