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East Aurora House
East Aurora House
East Aurora, NY, United States
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East Aurora House
East Aurora, NY, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2005
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Minimalism in practice: an energy-conscious house, open to the outdoors.
This house — designed for a young family seeking an uncluttered, healthy lifestyle — is a response to a request for “a house that literally pulls you out-of-doors and accommodates parties while affording our family total privacy.” The project is laid out like a series of garden rooms, each with a preferred orientation to the land, with privacy modulated by means of elegant white masonry walls. The house straddles the various microcosms of the site, while the expansive roof overhang gives protects from the elements. Solid walls extend from deep within the house, into the painterly western New York landscape outside. The entire ensemble of stucco, glass and water is grounded by hand laid walls of native stone from a nearby quarry.
A few massive landscape walls organize the house, the grounds, and the site into four simple quadrants: approach, arrival, entertaining and privacy. Each quadrant reveals different aspects of the varied landscape, different light, and a different experience.
The house is heated with energy efficient radiant concrete floor slabs throughout, and the water source heating/cooling system takes advantage of the “heat sink” offered by the adjacent pond. Energy and money savings occur whenever the mechanical system is in use.
This house — designed for a young family seeking an uncluttered, healthy lifestyle — is a response to a request for “a house that literally pulls you out-of-doors and accommodates parties while affording our family total privacy.” The project is laid out like a series of garden rooms, each with a preferred orientation to the land, with privacy modulated by means of elegant white masonry walls. The house straddles the various microcosms of the site, while the expansive roof overhang gives protects from the elements. Solid walls extend from deep within the house, into the painterly western New York landscape outside. The entire ensemble of stucco, glass and water is grounded by hand laid walls of native stone from a nearby quarry.
A few massive landscape walls organize the house, the grounds, and the site into four simple quadrants: approach, arrival, entertaining and privacy. Each quadrant reveals different aspects of the varied landscape, different light, and a different experience.
The house is heated with energy efficient radiant concrete floor slabs throughout, and the water source heating/cooling system takes advantage of the “heat sink” offered by the adjacent pond. Energy and money savings occur whenever the mechanical system is in use.
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