Asked to design a modern cabin for a couple with passions for music and art, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm Anmahian Winton Architects created an ensemble of structures that is equal parts rustic and refined. The 16-acre property is nestled within the Berkshire Mountains in Red Rock, New York, near the Massachusetts border.

A hybrid steel-and-wood structure with a cast-in-place concrete base, the 4,500-square-foot main house has three levels that make up the private domain. A studio for the wife, an artisan, rests on grade, while the top floor includes a lone bedroom opposite a listening room for the husband, a music enthusiast. In between, the heavily glazed double-height space of the living room overlooks the treetop foliage surrounding the nearby meadow as the ground drops off beneath it.