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Thirty-five years after the firm originally designed this vacation
residence, its new owners sought to rejuvenate the house while preserving its
spaces, seasoned tones, and texture.
Clad inside and out almost entirely in twelve-inch wide cypress boards,
the original house exuded a straightforward simplicity the owners wished to
maintain. By constraining the
palette of materials and reusing salvaged parts of the existing house, the line
between new and old becomes nearly imperceptible, limited only to minimal
inflections in finish.
In
the enlarged and updated baths, and in the modernized kitchen and dining
terrace, a dense glacial sedimentary sandstone is used for its fine workability
into a variety of finishes. In
this way the stone varies subtly – only in texture – as it is reapplied from
one surface to another: horizontal walking surfaces are rendered with a smooth
honed finish, vertical wall surfaces with a rough flamed finish, and
countertops in a glossy polished finish.
This tactile language is traced consistently from room to room.
Little
of the material seen in the addition is in fact new. As the south wall and deck of the house were dismantled to
make room for the new construction, the cypress boards and cedar decking were
carefully salvaged and machined into new siding, fine scrim material, stair
treads and risers. Reused, this
cladding bears precisely the same patina as the other surfaces in the house –
an effect truly impossible to achieve with new construction materials. Only on close inspection is new texture
and color revealed at the boards’ freshly cut edges.
In
enhancing the simplicity of the original design, a subtle complexity has
emerged. Splices, cuts, and finishing techniques inflect upon otherwise
homogenous materials, recording the methods of craft and workmanship. Over the next thirty-five years the
patina that naturally accrues over time will continue refine the delicacy of
these inflections.
residence, its new owners sought to rejuvenate the house while preserving its
spaces, seasoned tones, and texture.
Clad inside and out almost entirely in twelve-inch wide cypress boards,
the original house exuded a straightforward simplicity the owners wished to
maintain. By constraining the
palette of materials and reusing salvaged parts of the existing house, the line
between new and old becomes nearly imperceptible, limited only to minimal
inflections in finish.
In
the enlarged and updated baths, and in the modernized kitchen and dining
terrace, a dense glacial sedimentary sandstone is used for its fine workability
into a variety of finishes. In
this way the stone varies subtly – only in texture – as it is reapplied from
one surface to another: horizontal walking surfaces are rendered with a smooth
honed finish, vertical wall surfaces with a rough flamed finish, and
countertops in a glossy polished finish.
This tactile language is traced consistently from room to room.
Little
of the material seen in the addition is in fact new. As the south wall and deck of the house were dismantled to
make room for the new construction, the cypress boards and cedar decking were
carefully salvaged and machined into new siding, fine scrim material, stair
treads and risers. Reused, this
cladding bears precisely the same patina as the other surfaces in the house –
an effect truly impossible to achieve with new construction materials. Only on close inspection is new texture
and color revealed at the boards’ freshly cut edges.
In
enhancing the simplicity of the original design, a subtle complexity has
emerged. Splices, cuts, and finishing techniques inflect upon otherwise
homogenous materials, recording the methods of craft and workmanship. Over the next thirty-five years the
patina that naturally accrues over time will continue refine the delicacy of
these inflections.
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