Situated in a hilltop clearing of a twelve acre site at the edge of Fayetteville, the Bakhita Ridge House, an informal home for an informal couple, sits in equipoise with an early 20th century barn. The design employs vernacular strategies fused with the potency of modernism to establish a series of dialogues, including old/new, opaque/transparent, axial/diagonal, inside/outside, and servant/served.