Ghent House in New York
Thomas Phifer and Partners- Typologies Housing House
- Date 2020
- City Ghent (Nueva York)
- Country United States
- Photographer Scott Frances
Located in Columbia County, in upstate New York and just a two-hour drive from Manhattan, the Ghent House project deals with more than the construction of a house and proposes an ambitious landscaping intervention covering over thirty hectares. The site design accommodates sculpture, sitting areas, a pool, walking paths, beehives, and provides ample grazing land for local cattle farmers. Within this site, Ghent House was designed as a linear collection of structures, slightly askew from one another and partially embedded into a hillside.
Each structure contains one room. Slightly raised interconnecting underground passages link the rooms spatially and conceptually. A small, elevated entry building leads down and into the passage that connects the house’s four bedrooms, kitchen, living, and dining rooms. Each room is focused on a large, glazed opening that provides spectacular views of the Catskill Mountains and access to the exterior. While on the outside the volumes are wrapped in an abstract black enclosure, a limited palette of colors is used inside, with white-toned walls and black floors, except in the dining room, which is clad in wooden panels.
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Arquitectos Architects
Thomas Phifer and Partners
Equipo Team
Thomas Phifer, Andrew Mazor, Caroline Alsup, Gregory Bonner
Consultores Consultants
Rodney Gibble Consulting Engineers (estructura structure); Petersen Engineering Group (instalaciones MEP consulting)
Contratista Contractor
Bill Stratton Building Company
Superficie Floor area
500 m² (superficie construida built area)
Fotos Photos
Scott Frances; Eric Petschek