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Montauk, New York
Built, 2014-2015
Maria McManus, Mark Gibson
Single Family House
1,905 Square Feet
Surf House is shaped by the raw beauty of its context. Located in the small beach enclave of Ditch Plains, long a favorite of surfers and bohemians, the house seeks to capture the warm otherworldly spirit that fills the salt air.
Designed for a young West Village family drawn to the area in part because of the similarity to their native Ireland, the house embraces the natural materials, finishes and landscape traditional to the area. In the spirit of the early Hampton’s work of architects such as Richard Meier and Charles Gwathmey, traditional materials are made contemporary through a reductive color palate and the use of pure, primitive forms. Forms which have presence but whose asymmetry produces an unidentifiable dissonance.
The monochromatic black exterior blends with the shadows of the natural landscape, complementing the raw beauty of Ditch Plains while opening into an ethereal light-filled interior. Clear forms and subtle detailing define a primitive yet contemporary architecture.
Entering between two staggered black cedar fence, a sand path leads to a dutch door with a porthole window nestled between two dark gables. White washed wood walls invite the visitor up to a great room filled flooded with natural light and sounds of the sea.
T.W. Ryan, Thomas Ryan, Brett Appel
Contractor:
Tom O’Donoghue
Photography:
Scott Frances, Blaine Davis
Location:
Status:
Client:
Typology:
Size:
Montauk, New York
Built, 2014-2015
Maria McManus, Mark Gibson
Single Family House
1,905 Square Feet
Surf House is shaped by the raw beauty of its context. Located in the small beach enclave of Ditch Plains, long a favorite of surfers and bohemians, the house seeks to capture the warm otherworldly spirit that fills the salt air.
Designed for a young West Village family drawn to the area in part because of the similarity to their native Ireland, the house embraces the natural materials, finishes and landscape traditional to the area. In the spirit of the early Hampton’s work of architects such as Richard Meier and Charles Gwathmey, traditional materials are made contemporary through a reductive color palate and the use of pure, primitive forms. Forms which have presence but whose asymmetry produces an unidentifiable dissonance.
The monochromatic black exterior blends with the shadows of the natural landscape, complementing the raw beauty of Ditch Plains while opening into an ethereal light-filled interior. Clear forms and subtle detailing define a primitive yet contemporary architecture.
Entering between two staggered black cedar fence, a sand path leads to a dutch door with a porthole window nestled between two dark gables. White washed wood walls invite the visitor up to a great room filled flooded with natural light and sounds of the sea.
T.W. Ryan, Thomas Ryan, Brett Appel
Contractor:
Tom O’Donoghue
Photography:
Scott Frances, Blaine Davis