Photo © Christian Richters
Photo © Christian Richters
Photo © Christian Richters
Photo © UNStudio

VilLA NM

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Location
Upstate, New York, USA
Year
2007
Client

Anonymous

Data
Building area: 300 m2

Programme
Single family house

Credits
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Olaf Gipser and Andrew Benn, Colette Parras, Jacco van Wengerden, Maria Eugenia Diaz, Jan Debelius, Martin Kuitert, Pablo Rica, Olga Vazquez-Ruano Advisors

Advisors
Project Consultant: Roemer Pierik, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

In the design for this single family house the sloping site is used as a device for programmatic and volumetric organization. A box-like volume bifurcates into two separate volumes; one seamlessly following the northern slope; the other lifted above the hill creating a covered parking space and generating a split-level internal organization. The volumetric transition is generated by a set of five parallel walls that rotate along a horizontal axis from vertical to horizontal. The ruled surface maintaining this transition is repeated five times in the building. From inside the huge window strips from floor to ceiling allow a fluid continuity between interior and landscape. From the exterior the reflective glass seams to become one with its surroundings.

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