The CC01 house is built in the middle of a agricultural field in upstate New York. Long linear grooves, formed by the dimensions of machinery are etched into the rolling hills from years of farming. These lines that hug the topography were developed into diagrams that inform the design of all configurations of the house: the primary organization, the cladding and details of the building. Additionally, the section of the house follows the contour of the land as it steps up from east to west. In this way, the house follows the landscape and topography both in plan and in section.
The programmatic spaces of the house are divided between two linear volumes, one wet and the other dry. The wet zone—consisting of bathrooms, kitchen, laundry, and utilities—occupies a long, thin volume, whereas the dry zone—consisting of the living and dining rooms, and bedrooms—exists in a wider volume that provides for more generous spaces. Set into the thinner volume (the wet zone), the infrastructure of water, waste, gas piping, and boiler and radiant heat distribution is an attenuated network of piping and valves. The two volumes slide past one another as they follow the linear farming pattern. Inside, the twenty-foot-long kitchen counter overlaps the two volumes at the ground floor, drawing together the working (wet) and living (dry) spaces.
The horizontally oriented corrugated-metal siding; patio paving patterns; plantings around the house; and the attenuated retaining walls, which are extensions of the long walls of the foundation extend into the landscape and define the exterior spaces of the garage, entry walkway, and two patios. Composed primarily of large glass windows and sliding doors, the short elevations of the house frame views of the cultivated fields on one end and of the neighboring farmer’s compound on the other.