New York structure studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted residence within the Hudson Valley knowledgeable by the “particular person notes of a music composition”.
Positioned in Germantown, New York, the Hudson Valley Residence spans 7,300 sq. toes (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 encircling farmland.
“Comprised of a sequence of utilitarian, easy type buildings with a repetitive vertical rhythm, the house’s elongated footprint is harking back to the lengthy, low-lying traits of agricultural buildings that dot the encircling regional panorama,” mentioned the studio.
It consists of 4 rectangular wings that department off of an entry lobby. Utility areas, similar to a powder room, laundry room and storage, have been positioned instantly adjoining to the entry, whereas a protracted hallway results in the entrances of three visitor bedrooms.
On the opposite facet of the entry, the biggest of the volumes holds an open-plan kitchen, dwelling and eating space, which connects to a major bed room and toilet.
Flooring-to-ceiling home windows line the vast majority of the outside, with the rest clad in a vertical cedar siding.
The 13-foot-high panels have 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,” mentioned HGX Design founder Hal Goldstein.
“It is a predictable system that flows like a chunk of music, with delicate tone-on-tone interactions with the weather that carry 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 obstacles to the visible or bodily circulation 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,” mentioned the studio. “Separations are outlined by daylight through the day and synthetic mild at evening.”
The home’s inside palette consists of impartial tones, with walnut flooring operating all through and darkish wooden panelling and gray tile used within the bogs.
A fitness center and media room are situated within the basement, whereas a pool, pool home and two outside 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 non secular place,” concludes Hal Goldstein. “The general circulation is actually musical, like particular person notes of a musical composition, which was the purpose of our work from the start.”
HGX Design is New York Metropolis-based studio based in 2020 by Hal Goldstein with a deal with company, business and residential tasks that “encourage human connection and fulfilment”.
Different tasks not too long ago accomplished within the Hudson Valley embody a sake brewery infused with components of native and Japanese structure and a lodge consisting of Corten steel-clad cabins.
The pictures is by Scott Frances except in any other case famous.
Challenge credit:
Design/Structure agency: HGXDESIGN
Managing companion: Hal Goldstein
Inventive 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 guide: Claude R. Engle Lighting Advisor
Mechanical: Crawford Associates
Heating, air flow, and air con: Crawford Associates
