LOCATION: Sagaponack
DATE: 2015
TYPE: Ground Up
SIZE: 4,500 Sq. Ft.

COLLABORATORS: Builder - Modern Green Home | Engineering - Craft Engineering Studio | Landscape - Terra Design

AWARDS: AIA Long Island Archi Awards – Commendation – Residential Single-Family $1-$3 Million

This complex topography opened up the possibility of a house with multiple levels. These various levels are composed of an agglomeration of the simple shed-like forms placed within this undulating landscape. A stair weaves through these forms tying them together experientially from within while allowing them to be separated from without.

One approaches the house low down from within the Basin. The house is slowly revealed through a wild landscape of a few trees. At the lowest level, a bedroom is perched on the rim of this depression and overlooks these same trees to the North. Farther up, the first floor houses the Entrance, Living Room, Kitchen, Dining, and Family room. This level opens to a swimming pool and views of the farm to the West beyond. A private enclave for the master bedroom is tucked between the first and second floors and looks over the farm to the South. The second floor includes three bedrooms and juts out like an outcropping to create a sheltered outdoor space below.