Sensitivity to context was a critical factor in the design of this family compound because the former owners continue to farm the land. The original farmhouse, a low-ceilinged one-and-a-half story structure, became a bedroom wing with sleeping lofts in the attic and guestrooms below. A master suite and the main living wings are attached to two sides of the existing building. Corrugated metal panels clad the complex, placed vertically on the new, horizontally on the old. The whole is covered in checkered asphalt shingles to carry on a local tradition of eccentric roofing. The result is, in the jury’s words, "a creative modern interpretation of a very traditional form."