Lake Life

Located in the quiet town of Bethel, New York, on the edge of beautiful White Lake in the Catskills, this five-bedroom second home was designed with a nod toward the local "Adirondack" building tradition but with its feet firmly rooted in European modernist traditions. The building is caught between and is defined by two reclaimed New England granite walls that extend into the landscape to define entry, procession, and ultimately the differentiation between the manufactured and natural landscape. The ground floor is developed as a "free plan" that allows fluid and open movement within the house's public areas and from those spaces out into the landscape. The private sleeping spaces are then compressed into the volume of the "roof" form, which is clad entirely in copper. This sculptural, folded, private volume that floats above the living loft on timber columns are evocative of traditional residential or barn structures but is detailed in abstract architectural minimalism. Lifting this architectural volume off the ground, the heavy timber columns, paradoxically lightening it.

Location

Plum Beach Rd, White Lake NY

Project Team

Adam Rolston, Drew Stuart, Gabriel Benroth, and Hilary R Kroll

Services

Architecture and Interiors Design

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