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Rhythm of Steps
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Greenport, NY, United States
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Rhythm of Steps
Greenport, NY, United States
The front yard of the existing house faces a village street viewed under the canopy of a large street tree. The back of the house opens to a serene view of a bay, complete with osprey nest. The design of this minimal portico explores the permeation of spaces between street, front yard, house, rear yard, and the bay, while keeping separations and secrecies.
A new pergola, running across the facade, filters the sky, and ties the front yard to the house. Wood-lattice panels, fastened with hinges on the wall and posts, protect the privacy from the street. Filtered by the lattice, the staggered windows cast diffuse light in wall-niches, instead of catching views. A stepping rhythm synchronized with the staggered niches creates movement and pause, watching and panning, completing the permeation of spaces.
PROGRAM: Enclosed portico addition to an existing house, with an integrated seat, display shelves for small objects, coat hooks and closets. The owner wishes to have a connection to the front yard, yet with a sense of enclosure, not as a semi-public/semi-private place, but rather as a private receptor to the outer-world.
FLOOR AREA: 80 SF
MATERIAL: 2x6 Cedar Pergola acts as collar beams inside of the portico. Cedar 2x2 lattice screen can be opened for cleaning and window operation. Cedar siding, painted or stained, is on both exterior and interior walls. Window niches and wall cabinets use stained birch plywood. Indian copper slate covers the floor, two steps lower than the living room.
CONTRACTOR: Joel Daly
LANDSCAPE: Connie Cross
Photo Copy Peter Mauss
A new pergola, running across the facade, filters the sky, and ties the front yard to the house. Wood-lattice panels, fastened with hinges on the wall and posts, protect the privacy from the street. Filtered by the lattice, the staggered windows cast diffuse light in wall-niches, instead of catching views. A stepping rhythm synchronized with the staggered niches creates movement and pause, watching and panning, completing the permeation of spaces.
PROGRAM: Enclosed portico addition to an existing house, with an integrated seat, display shelves for small objects, coat hooks and closets. The owner wishes to have a connection to the front yard, yet with a sense of enclosure, not as a semi-public/semi-private place, but rather as a private receptor to the outer-world.
FLOOR AREA: 80 SF
MATERIAL: 2x6 Cedar Pergola acts as collar beams inside of the portico. Cedar 2x2 lattice screen can be opened for cleaning and window operation. Cedar siding, painted or stained, is on both exterior and interior walls. Window niches and wall cabinets use stained birch plywood. Indian copper slate covers the floor, two steps lower than the living room.
CONTRACTOR: Joel Daly
LANDSCAPE: Connie Cross
Photo Copy Peter Mauss
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