The glass and wood panels on the upper portion of this building are screened by a massive architecturally scaled photograph printed on woven vinyl mesh. This innovative application of technology developed for use as exterior advertising, provides a diffuse light for the interior office space and a palate for collaboration with artist Joni Sternbach. Ms. Sternbach’s photograph of serene ocean ripples inverts expectations of ground and sky becoming an uncanny and stunning gesture synthesizing art and architecture.
Set into a rural hillside of Columbia County in New York’s Hudson Valley, this atelier and guest house continues f:t’s in predilection for clean modernist form and interiors clad in richly textured exterior envelopes.
The base of the building, bermed into a site which slopes down an 8’ incline, is constructed of cast in place concrete wrapped with rough hewn lumber woven in a horizontally lapped configuration. The result is a complex interplay of light and shadow on a rich, tactile material.
The upper portion of the building has expansive banding of glass units inserted between a series of wood frames sheathed with cement board. This simple and inexpensive system of panelized construction has become a prototype for other larger scaled projects by f:t.
