LOCATION: Sagaponack, New York
DATE: 2015
TYPE: Renovation
SIZE: 2,500 sq ft

DESIGNERS: Nilay Oza
COLLABORATORS: Builder - Modern Green Home | Engineer - Struktur Studio | Landscape - Geoffrey Nimmer Landscape

AWARDS: AIA Long Island Archi Awards – Best Renovation | AN Best of Design Awards – 1st Place Building Renovation | Cottages and Gardens Innovation in Design Awards Winner AIA | NYS Archi Awards – Residential Award of Merit

This project was an adaptive reuse of a quintessentially ‘humble’ ranch home dating back from the post-war era. What it lacks in ‘architectural significance’ is made up by its location. It benefits by an advantageous location on the site that would have been lost had we decided to demolish and rebuild.

Our clients came to us with a desire to retain its small scale. This was in sharp contrast to the neighborhood’s growing extravagance.  In choosing to carefully expand and add we created a private courtyard, an indoor-outdoor dining space, and an art studio. All these spaces are simultaneously linked and hemmed in by a glazed vestibule that also serves as the entrance. We have come to recognize the success of this simple design in forming zones of privacy that in turn allow for multiple uses within the confines of a small area.