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When asked if his latest project, a vacation home in the Idaho resort town of Sun Valley, is at all based on a local vernacular, Tuscon-based architect Rick Joy bristles. “I don’t really think that way,” he says. Nevertheless, the starting point for the 7,900-square- foot house, built at the edge of a golf course and a brush-covered hillside, seems to have been a long, low-slung volume topped with an archetypal vernacular element: a gabled roof.