LOCATION: Sagaponack
DATE: 2014
TYPE: Renovation
SIZE: 5,000 sq ft

DESIGNERS: Nilay Oza
COLLABORATORS: Engineer - Struktur Studio

AWARDS: Arts & Architecture Quarterly – Daniel J Rowen Memorial Award

This 5,000 Sq. Ft. renovation of two fading and cracked red barns facing Townline Rd. in Sagaponack was once a warehouse for equipment when the site was a quarry in the 1930s. Like other structures of this vintage, the barn was awaiting its fate at the hands of a demolition crew before our client saved it. The first step was to re-envision the derelict structure as a modern Live/Workspace for an artist couple and their two kids that could maintain the integrity of its industrial past.

Like we often do in such circumstances, we proposed selective demolition. This tactic was crucial in not only saving the structure but in forming the basis of our design. Selective demolition revealed that an architecturally insignificant structure connected the two barns.