Leroy Street Studio

Stone Houses

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

STONE HOUSES

Leroy Street Stud io

PROJECT YEAR
2005

AREA
650.32 m2

LOCATION
East Hampton, United States

YEAR
2005

PHOTOGRAPHS
Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

Text description provided by architect.

For a very flat 12 acre site dotted with specimen trees, a mother and daughter requested low-maintenance weekend residence for themselves and extended family made of Westchester granite.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

The property was planned as two separate houses linked with a network of dry-stack stone walls that create a solid and private face at the southern-oriented arrival side of the buildings.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

The walls unify exterior and interior spaces and knit the buildings together resulting in a series of internal and external courtyard spaces.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

Floating roofs define living spaces and great expanses of glazing open toward views of the agricultural reserve to the north.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

The first house has a slot of water that cuts through the courtyard wall to mark the entry which is accessed through an oversized cabinet that pierces the forecourt curtain wall.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

A long gallery runs east-west along one of the walls and links the public and private wings. A glass bridge cuts across the gallery linking two ends of an elevated guest wing.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

The second house is entered at its narrowest point, through a glazed hall overlooking a raised garden court.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

A series of floating roofs connects the entry to the interior and exterior public spaces- all nestled against the stone walls.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol

The private wing is defined in contrast, as a taut box of oak glu-lam portal frames wrapped in a continuous skin of louvers.

Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol


Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Stone Houses
© Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol


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Leroy Street Studio
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Leroy Street Studio
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