The couple wanted a modern house with an open plan and lots of windows,
but they wanted the house to fit into the neighborhood. Flavin had the solution.
He left the main house unchanged to maintain the architectural style, but he
quietly inserted a modern addition on the left side of the old building.
"What was fun about the project is that we sort of had a foot in both worlds—
in the Rockport traditional world and the Austrian avant-garde world, too,"
Flavin explains. "[The husband] really wanted to do something fun and modern
as best as he could."
Containing an office and study, the addition sits on a granite base and features
an up-sloped shed roof, but it manages to play nicely with its colonial cousin
because Flavin and his team skillfully used similar materials on both sections:
white cedar siding (on both buildings), red cedar on the roof of the main house,
and copper for the addition's roof as well as for the downspouts and gutters on
the main house.
The materials help unify the two buildings, Flavin says, but they serve a more
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