This Modern Dream Homes, Sagaponac House by Tsao & Mckown Architects. A custom-designed house for a hypothetical client explores the universal human desire for both orderliness and spontaneity, while firmly rooting itself to the landscape and creating privacy by shaping the terrain.
Design of a 4,500 square foot house at an east Long Island community’s master-planned by Richard Meier.
The house functions (physically and psychically) on multiple levels – as much an intimate retreat for two (or one) as an accommodating host to an extended family (or numerous guests) – thus promoting multiple, overlapping narratives. Above: the public face, contained, controlled, consistent. Below: the private sphere: free-wheeling and spontaneous. This chose to embrace, rather than deny, this inherent ambivalence – a duality that is universal to the human condition.
