DERIK OLSEN
two dog
ranch
Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other." FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything...
DERIK OLSEN
Two Dog Ranch sits neatly on the edge of Fish Creek outside Whitehall. When Jane and Jim Klos bought the property, it was overgrown; the buildings were crammed full of the detritus of a dead ranch, and the creek severely degraded. Trout Unlimited has helped restore the creek.
Reworking existing one-use structures, Dan Hard- ing and Henri Fochs of Intrinsik Architecture ar- ranged an enclave with a "corridor" of outdoor space connecting the buildings as rooms. Approximately 1,000 square feet, the granary became the main house where a living room addition opens west to the creek. The welding shop became a dining room with carbon steel wainscot. Doors and windows framed by thin carbon steel underscore Jane's sense of "rustic contemporary."
These "rooms" open to a pergola, a gathering space facing an orchard. Planted by the original owners, the trees are now sculptures, gnarled and thick. The exposed frame of an older barn sinks on the front edge of the site, framing the past and future in the landscape.
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