This lakefront weekend home in Massachusetts by Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design attributes protrusions that gesture towards the sky and water (+ slideshow).
Named Lake House, the sculptural two-storey dwelling was designed by Taylor and Miller as an abstract composition of volumes and types.
It encompasses one,650 square feet (153 square metres), and was designed to serve as a country retreat for a Manhattan-based mostly designer and musician.
The home is constructed into a sloped site in the Berkshires, a hilly region in western Massachusetts that is dotted with quaint villages. It is surrounded by trees and overlooks a lake.
“This residence maintains a dualistic connection with the lake towards which it is nestled,” stated Taylor and Miller.
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“When observed from the street, the property is abstract in type, exhibiting no aperture or puncture. As a single steps down the walking path and toward the lake, even so, the residence opens itself up.”
A single stacked timber wall serves as the two the retaining wall for the landscape and as the principal enclosure for the property.
The protrusions are manufactured of bonded aluminum.
On the exterior, the upper portion of the residence consists of 3, white volumes of varying heights. The largest volume, which is rectilinear, contains a master bedroom.
A far more sculptural volume is hollow and is topped with a skylight. It brings normal light to an entry vestibule on the reduced degree.
On the decrease level, the architects surrounded windows and other openings with massive, white frames – referred to as “sleeves” – that protrude from the developing envelope.
The sleeves, produced of aluminium, gesture toward the lake.
“A series of sleeves act as spatial leaks, breaking by way of the timber and permitting the interior spaces to reach out to the lake in the type of very distinct views,” described the company.
The lower degree contains two bedrooms, a residing space, dining area, kitchen, foyer and garage.
The firm aimed to create two distinct “spatial orientations” within the dwelling: a horizontal orientation, emphasised by the sleeves that seem towards the lake, and a vertical orientation, which is defined by sleeves that seem up to the sky.
“Every of these varieties of spaces is defined differently in their materiality,” explained the firm.
“In the case of the spaces oriented horizontally, they are characterised by neutral tone and materiality. In the situation of the spaces oriented vertically, they are characterised by their view of the sky by means of a skylight aperture and intense modifications in materials.”
The firm utilized sizzling-rolled steel in the kitchen, rusted steel for a stair, and plywood for the skylight.
“Moving via the residence, these vertical spaces give a sort of cinematic ‘hard cut’ that interrupts the modernist notion of steady flowing space as they existing themselves among the horizontal spaces of more neutral character,” explained the firm.
Founded in 2002, Taylor and Miller Architecture and Layout is a multidisciplinary studio centered on architecture, lighting layout and fabrication. It is based in New York, with workshop facilities in the Berkshires.
Photography is by Studio Dubuisson.
Ground floor program – click for larger image 
1st floor strategy – click for greater image 
Elevation – click for bigger image 
