位于哈德逊河谷，在可追溯到革命战争的历史悠久的道路上，该场地被安置在森林，石墙，清澈和老农庄的环境中。小屋被重新设计在一个古老的农舍的脚印上 – 当代的建筑呈现出一条严密而不透明的外观，而两层幕墙则利用了这个档次，为后面的两英亩森林砍伐提供了前景。设计通过提供一个丰富多彩和旺盛的栖息地来感受这些开放场地的感觉，通过一个薹草和野花草甸来响应这些条件;一个受限制的种植调色板紧邻房屋，引用了周围的林地 – 蕨类植物，阿尔卑斯山脉，以及沿着露台墙壁的高草和野花，指示和扩大了超越的草地。
分级，现场墙壁和露台设计为大胆，现代，动态的手势，指导循环和雕刻小屋，两个谷仓和较大的景观之间的空间连接。材料调色板包括板式混凝土墙，新的脆性岩石墙（由现场材料构成），青石和砾石铺路，以及在某些光照条件下与相邻谷仓的红色相一致的科东钢。钢铁还为房屋的分级和选址提供了一个基准，几乎不能在入口处被冲洗，而是沿着前台阶梯逐渐变得自信，并在后面的露台上挡土墙。
Located in the Hudson River valley, on a historic road dating back to the revolutionary war, the site is ensconced in an environment of forest, stone walls, clearings, and old farmsteads. The cottage was re-imagined on the footprint of an old farmhouse – the contemporary structure presents a stern and opaque façade to the road while a two story curtain wall takes advantage of the grade and provides prospect over the two-acre forest clearing behind. The design responds to these conditions with a sedge and wildflower meadow by providing a colorful and exuberant habitat for sensory enjoyment of the open field; a restrained planting palette in immediate proximity to the house referencing species from both the surrounding woodlands – ferns, amelanchier – and tall grasses and wildflowers along the terrace walls signifying and amplifying the meadows beyond.
Grading, site walls and terraces are designed as bold, contemporary, dynamic gestures directing circulation and sculpting a spatial connectivity between the cottage, the two barns, and the larger landscape. The palette of materials include board-form concrete walls, new crisp fieldstone walls (constructed from onsite material), bluestone and gravel paving, and Corten steel, which in certain light conditions concurs with the red of the adjacent barn. The steel also provides a datum for the grading and the siting of the house – barely detectable as flush edging at the entry, but graduating to an assertive presence along the front stairs and as retaining walls at the back terrace.
Collaborators: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, Sharon Davis Design, Maple Leaf Associates
