LOCATION: Sag Harbor
DATE: 2018
TYPE: Ground Up
SIZE: 3,000 Sq. Ft.

DESIGN TEAM: Design Principal - Nilay Oza | Designers - Nilay Oza
COLLABORATORS: Contractor - Modern Green Home | Engineering - Craft Engineering Studio

AWARDS: AIA NYS Design Award - Residential Award of Merit | AIA Long Island Archi Awards - Residential Single Family (Under 1 million) Commendation Award | AIA Peconic Daniel J. Rowen Memorial Awards - Architecture

This home curates one’s experience by pivoting from the very public street to domestic spaces of the home. These spaces in turn are designed to take in the tranquility of the Pond beyond.

A busy Turnpike bookends this property at one end and a densely vegetated Pond on the other. An arriving vehicle cuts past a hedge of ten-foot-tall Junipers to park, unseen from the road, in a vehicular forecourt. Upon getting out of the vehicle, one encounters a retaining wall, which is a dense Bulwark of concrete and wood.

Upon descending a few steps past this wall, the entry culminates in an intimate forecourt. One is now within the confines of the house really. The entrance foyer and mudroom provide a further means to shed the world outside. The act of entering now complete, the house begins opening up to the Pond beyond.