Residential
White Residence Woodbridge, CT
Situated in a sylvan suburb of New Haven, the White Residence seeks to create an elegant engagement and harmonious dialogue between the built environment and its surroundings. This intent plays out in the house’s geometry, its definition of volumes, and its fenestration. Multi-story extensively glazed spaces house more public functions in an effort to draw the interior in and bind interior and exterior in those spaces. Geometry, finishes, color, and levels of opacity work to define relationships between the interior and exterior and the relationship of the inhabitants to those realms and to the functions within the house.
Sun angles, views, and overhangs interlock in a manner in which there is no arbitrariness. Instead, the body and inhabitation of the residence are considered deeply at every turn in order to deliver a meaningful experience both of domestic life and of one’s relationship to nature.
Brocket’s Point House Guildford, CT
The dramatic outcropping on which the house is sited affords dramatic views of long Island Sound and the local estuary. The design of the house takes full advantage of this dynamic topography with interlocking, multi-story interior and exterior spaces that correspond to circulation, gathering, and view functions within the parti.
Waldman Residence Holyoke, MA
The house is located on top of the hill with a view of the valley beyond. This story of the sloping site can afford an architect great pleasure by offering the opportunity to engage the slope in section, to configure the architecture in relation to a change in grade. In this instance, this has led to the logic of the plan with the public realm accessed from the grade at the top of the slope, and bedrooms located below at grade further down the slope. In this manner, the primary entrance is at grade, with circulation in the house leading to views and a porch off of the living and dining areas. Below, bedrooms can engage directly with the surroundings at grade as well. The horseshoe plan feeds off of a central vertical core.
Yarmouth House, Yarmouth, ME
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Belle Meade Island House.
The recently completed Belle Meade Island house reflects the owner's rigorous aesthetic and programmatic requirements, implemented in coordination with stringent FEMA AE Coastal and local Miami 21 T3-R Sub Urban zone protocols. The project is designed to maximize occupiable square footage within tight lot geometry and Miami2 1 parameters while maximizing views of Biscayne Bay.
The home’s front provides a covered, ceremonial grand stair for socializing and transition from the driveway to the interior, as well as access to a multi car garage. The first floor is elevated above the FEMA base flood elevation and additional possible wave action in order to provide a dry living area reflecting a projected FEMA worst case scenario storm surge. On the waterfront side of the house, except for a structural portion of wall, all walls are fully glazed from floor to ceiling in order to provide unobstructed views of the backyard and Biscayne bay beyond.
The backyard is designed to maximize outdoor engagement of the waterfront site by focusing on three primary elements: the pool with surrounding pool deck, the pool house with full cooking, dining and bathing facilities, and a dock that spans the entire width of the property – all bound together with landscaping. In that sense, the backyard functions as an extension of the house for daily engagement with the outdoors on land, as well as a conduit to the water’s edge and for boating and watersports.
Per the owner’s aesthetic directive, the interior maintains as high ceilings as possible while minimizing the reliance on visible coffered ceiling areas. This results in an elegant sense of volumetric continuity and openness. The large master and secondary bedrooms have edge to edge, full height glass walls looking out on to the water. Both have large walk-in closets and restrooms. Amenities include a walk-in wine cellar off the living area, a home theater, multiple rooftop patios. Function and systems are addressed with ample dedicated facilities provided for clothes washing, air handling, water purification, electrical panels and home automation racks.