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2001 |
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STATUS: |
completed |
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east hampton, ny |
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private residence |
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The original and rather boxy house was built in the 1970s. It is typical of the area, with wood-frame construction and large windows facing the rear. The scope of work involved the addition of a car port and an art port/artist studio, storage, and mud room, redesign of the entry areas, changes to the driveway, and landscaping.
The addition balances the masses of the carport and art port around a large central volume. The formal intention was to pull apart the vertical wood facing of exterior skin of the building and establish a tension between the old and the new skins, between the port for cars and the port for making art, alluding to the stretching of canvas over a frame.
The interior employs raw materials such as homosote. This bespeaks of a working painting studio. It allows for the pinning of
various objects to the wall. The exterior surface was conceived of and layered to produce a solid gray box endowed with a transparent skin that wraps it and reveals the solid underlying building made of concrete board that is usually coated with stucco. The material was left raw and with exposed connectors. The wooden skin was wrapped around the solid understructure and it forms a translucent barrier that surrounds the carport and then continues around the studio. The clerestory window and north window are on an axis with the pool. The scale of the single sliding “north window” is proportionately related to the existing sliders of the main house. This door is slightly disengaged from the exterior surface. The definition of “finished” is placed into question in response to some of the program components: a place for painting and a place for shading a car. The function determines the finish.
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