New York structure studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted house within the Hudson Valley knowledgeable by the “particular person notes of a music composition”.
Situated in Germantown, New York, the Hudson Valley Residence spans 7,300 sq. ft (678 sq. metres) and is comprised of interconnected rectangular volumes with courtyards inserted between them.
HGX Design created the home to host the proprietor’s visiting household and it now stands as the principle dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and one other residence.
The construction’s horizontal type was knowledgeable by the vernacular structure of the encompassing farmland.
“Comprised of a collection of utilitarian, easy type buildings with a repetitive vertical rhythm, the house’s elongated footprint is paying homage to the lengthy, low-lying traits of agricultural buildings that dot the encompassing regional panorama,” stated the studio.
It consists of 4 rectangular wings that department off of an entry lobby. Utility areas, equivalent to a powder room, laundry room and storage, had been positioned instantly adjoining to the entry, whereas an extended hallway results in the entrances of three visitor bedrooms.
On the opposite aspect of the entry, the biggest of the volumes holds an open-plan kitchen, residing and eating space, which connects to a major bed room and loo.
Flooring-to-ceiling home windows line nearly all of the outside, with the rest clad in a vertical cedar siding.
The 13-foot-high panels had been used to seize the rising solar from the east on the entrance of the home and the setting solar at its again, in addition to to create shifts within the materials palette all through the day.
“The home meets the sky in a really minimal approach, whereas remaining evenly seated on the bottom,” stated HGX Design founder Hal Goldstein.
“It is a predictable system that flows like a bit of music, with refined tone-on-tone interactions with the weather that deliver the colors and materials palette to life all through the day.”
The studio additionally defined the house defies “the normal expectations of an open plan” with “no boundaries to the visible or bodily movement of the house”.
“The intimacy of the house’s well laid out areas defy the normal expectations of an open plan, with 11.5-foot ceilings all through,” stated the studio. “Separations are outlined by daylight through the day and synthetic gentle at evening.”
The home’s inside palette consists of impartial tones, with walnut flooring working all through and darkish wooden panelling and gray tile used within the bogs.
A health club and media room are positioned within the basement, whereas a pool, pool home and two out of doors areas sit on the entrance and again of the house.
“The land, the views, and the structure mix in ways in which contribute to a really religious place,” concludes Hal Goldstein. “The general movement is really musical, like particular person notes of a musical composition, which was the objective of our work from the start.”
HGX Design is New York Metropolis-based studio based in 2020 by Hal Goldstein with a concentrate on company, business and residential initiatives that “encourage human connection and fulfilment”.
Different initiatives lately accomplished within the Hudson Valley embody a sake brewery infused with parts of native and Japanese structure and a resort consisting of Corten steel-clad cabins.
The pictures is by Scott Frances except in any other case famous.
Undertaking credit:
Design/Structure agency: HGXDESIGN
Managing accomplice: Hal Goldstein
Artistic director: Hal Goldstein
Lead designers/architects: Hal Goldstein/Stefan Kusurelis
Contractors: CofH Builders Inc.
Constructors: Pete Mostaccio
Engineers: DiSalvo Erickson (Structural Engineers), Crawford Associates (Civil Engineers)
Panorama architects: Wagner Hodgson
Lighting marketing consultant: Claude R. Engle Lighting Marketing consultant
Mechanical: Crawford Associates
Heating, air flow, and air con: Crawford Associates
