Charlotte Residence

Abstract

Charlotte, North Carolina, a banking center and one of the fastest growing cities in the southern United States over the last couple of decades, has a population of more than half a million. But you’d never know it from looking at the five-acre piece of land for which the Charlottesville, Virginia firm William McDonough + Partners — long a leader of the green-design movement — designed this two-story, three-bedroom house. Though the house sits within the Charlotte city limits, its rustic exterior finishes and sprawling, leafy grounds make it seem much further removed from urban life than the twenty miles that separate it from the heart of downtown.