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House Between Forest and Field is a 3,600 square-foot house at the edge of an agricultural area in Stanfordville, NY. While compact in its footprint and barn-like massing, the three-story house engages in various ways with the expansive landscape around it. Situated at the boundary between forest and field on its 13-acre lot, the narrow house is also inspired by both, joining together the exterior identity of agricultural buildings with an interior organization inspired by the spatial experience of a forest.
As a result of its slender 27-foot width and large picture windows, the house appears as a filter for the landscape beyond when seen from the exterior, while allowing a continuous connection to the outdoors from every space within.
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The family that lives here comes into daily contact with the land, oscillating between the intimacy of the forest and the expansiveness of the changing hills of Dutchess County beyond.
A series of lauan plywood–clad “cores” inside the house contain various uses (storage, kitchen counter and appliances, stair, powder room, library, fan coils), delineating different zones within a fluid continuum. A covered porch extends living space outside, and the house’s cedar rain screen cladding further blurs distinctions between exterior and interior.
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Client: Private client
Location: Dutchess County, NY
Status: Phase 1 completed; Phase 2 under construction
Dates: 2019 – 2022 (Phase 1)
Sq Footage: 3,500sf (Phase 1)
Program: Private home for a family of four on a 13 acre property
Environmental: Geothermal
Design Team (Phase 1): Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang | Isabel Sarasa | Laura Lee, Paul Mok, Jason Kim | Adina Bauman | Michelle Lin, Emilie O’Neill
Collaborators: Site & Civil Engineering: T.M. DePuy Engineering & Land Surveying P.C. | Structural Engineer: SILMAN | MEP: OLA Consulting Engineers, PC | Lighting Designer: Lumen Architecture, PLLC | Cost Estimator: Ellana Inc
Builders: UCE Fine Builders