Architectural guidelines at Bundoran Farm are designed to inspire, encourage and support the homeowner, the architect and the builder, not to dictate to them. At the beginning and the end the most critical guidelines are "think" and "care." If these two words are fully embraced and carefully enacted at every stage during the design and construction of a home, then more specific guidelines are scarcely required.

Bundoran Farm's design team came to the land with a great deal of combined experience, but with no preconceptions. The masterplanning and design of Bundoran Farm is not reflective of any fixed ideology or marketing approach. Rather, the very words Preservation Development guide the team away from templates and toward the earth itself. The location of homesites here has been a process of rigorous analysis and a great deal of time walking the land at various times of the day and through every season of the year. The motto of Bundoran Farm’s design team efforts reflects that of generations past: "...listen to the land. It will tell you what to do."

Language of Design

The design of the homes at Bundoran Farm will generally fall in to one of two vocabularies - Traditional Vocabularies or Individual Vocabularies. Traditional Vocabularies will draw from the architectural language that have emerged over time in the rural context around Charlottesville and Piedmont, Virginia. Individual Vocabularies are intended to be complementary to houses designed in the traditional architecture of the region and, by their very nature, are highly interpretive. Common threads between traditional and individual vocabularies will be site relationships, basic building forms, materials and color.

Homes here will be like living here - individual and honest, expressions of the best that folks can do. Homes will be placed, designed and lived in to compliment their extraordinary environment. This is the good life, on the good earth.