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Westport Meadow House
Westport Meadow House
Westport, MA, United States
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Other Projects by Maryann Thompson Architects
Westport Meadow House
Westport, MA, United States
This one-story house nestles into a forty-acre meadow on the Westport
River. The house is conceived as an "indoor/outdoor" space which is
firmly rooted to its site. 1800 SF of deck stretches along the western
elevation and perforates the plan at the entry, creating a modified "dog
trot." Enclosed by the living room and master bedroom, this dogtrot
space becomes an "interiorized" outdoor room and a threshold between
public and private spaces. Large sliding doors at the living room and
master bedroom corners open onto the deck, inviting light and
cross-ventilation into the body of the scheme, and allowing for a dual
reading of these rooms as both interior and exterior spaces. When the
doors are fully open these spaces read as "screened porches" rather than
traditionally enclosed rooms. Floor and ceiling planes in the living
room and bedrooms continue onto the decks, furthering the ambiguity
between inside and outside space. Light passes through the four-sided
clerestory in the living room, illuminating the volume with changing
patterns throughout the day and across the seasons.
A wood-clad "organizing wall" skewers the scheme, around which the
program spaces wrap. Storage, HVAC, kitchen appliances and laundry
areas are concealed within to preserve unobstructed connection to the
landscape. The organizing wall serves as a deep threshold, heightening
and reinforcing one's layered passage from the meadow to the river.
Program elements are distributed across the threshold depending upon
their peak occupancy. The kitchen, breakfast area and office face east
to take in morning light, while the combined living/dining room,
bedrooms and decks face west and south for afternoon sunsets. Deep
overhangs on the western elevation shade the expansive glass, create a
shady exterior place to sit and accentuate the overall horizontality of
the house, connecting it to the horizon by way of the meadow and river
beyond. By utilizing a subtle and simple palette the design echoes its
setting while adhering to a fixed budget.
River. The house is conceived as an "indoor/outdoor" space which is
firmly rooted to its site. 1800 SF of deck stretches along the western
elevation and perforates the plan at the entry, creating a modified "dog
trot." Enclosed by the living room and master bedroom, this dogtrot
space becomes an "interiorized" outdoor room and a threshold between
public and private spaces. Large sliding doors at the living room and
master bedroom corners open onto the deck, inviting light and
cross-ventilation into the body of the scheme, and allowing for a dual
reading of these rooms as both interior and exterior spaces. When the
doors are fully open these spaces read as "screened porches" rather than
traditionally enclosed rooms. Floor and ceiling planes in the living
room and bedrooms continue onto the decks, furthering the ambiguity
between inside and outside space. Light passes through the four-sided
clerestory in the living room, illuminating the volume with changing
patterns throughout the day and across the seasons.
A wood-clad "organizing wall" skewers the scheme, around which the
program spaces wrap. Storage, HVAC, kitchen appliances and laundry
areas are concealed within to preserve unobstructed connection to the
landscape. The organizing wall serves as a deep threshold, heightening
and reinforcing one's layered passage from the meadow to the river.
Program elements are distributed across the threshold depending upon
their peak occupancy. The kitchen, breakfast area and office face east
to take in morning light, while the combined living/dining room,
bedrooms and decks face west and south for afternoon sunsets. Deep
overhangs on the western elevation shade the expansive glass, create a
shady exterior place to sit and accentuate the overall horizontality of
the house, connecting it to the horizon by way of the meadow and river
beyond. By utilizing a subtle and simple palette the design echoes its
setting while adhering to a fixed budget.
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