Kestrel Basin · Montana · 7,400 ft
Ridgeline
One house a season,
built to outlast us.
Eleven seasons on this ridge
- Homes completed
- 0
- Delivered on the season
- 0%
- Envelope warranty
- 0 yr
We take one commission a year and finish it before the first hard freeze. Nineteen houses, no second crew, no house left open through a winter.
The method
Site, then material,
then drawings.
- Site
A full year on the ground first — where the snow loads, where the wind scours, where the sun lands in February.
- Material
Board-formed concrete to the frost line, charred cedar above it, standing-seam zinc over the whole thing. Three materials, no trim.
- Build
Our own crew, one house at a time, closed in before October. You get the foreman's number, not an account manager's.
Materials we build with
“They spent a winter on the site before they drew anything. The house sits where the snow doesn't.”— Owner, Ridge House
“Closed in by the first week of October, exactly as promised. Eleven years and the cedar has only gotten better.”— Owner, South Ridge
The studio
Wren Calloway
and six people.
Ridgeline is an architect, a foreman, and four carpenters who have worked together for a decade. We draw the house and we build the house, which means nothing gets value-engineered out of it after you have signed. Wren spent nine years detailing envelopes for cold-climate practices in Oslo and Bozeman before starting the studio.
Est. 2015 · Kestrel Basin, MT · AIA Montana
Next season
Start with the site.
We walk the land with you before we talk about a house — half a day, no fee, and an honest answer about whether the parcel is worth building on.