Livingston Manor House

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House

Marc Thorpe Design

ARCHITECTS
Marc Thorpe Design

ARCHITECT OF RECORD
JBA Collective

PHOTOGRAPHS
Marco Petrini

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Wild & Balanced High-Performance Building

AREA
1800 ft²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Catskill, United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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The Livingston Manor house is located 2 hours northwest of New York City in the West Catskills. The house was designed as a private rural escape for a

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
© Marco Petrini

Brooklyn-based graphic designer and his family. Livingston Manor House is 1800 sqft comprising a large open living and dining room, two bedrooms, utility, and a bathroom.

The home’s distinguishing design feature is a deep triangulated cantilevered roofline engineered to float over the wrapping deck.

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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The construction of the house follows the standards of passive design, reducing the building's ecological footprint by maintaining ultra-low energy use for space heating and cooling.

Built by Wild & Balanced High-Performance Building, the firm is an advocate for responsible architecture.

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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The firm describes its methodology as the following, “One shouldn’t get caught up in the term (passive).

Simply put, Passive construction is the evolution of homebuilding & renovations.

It is an air-tight, super-insulated, thermally broken structure that is then vented (ERV/HRV) continuously with filtered fresh air.

Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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The effects of building this way have numerous benefits including: Much lower heating and cooling bills than standard construction, a structure that heats and cools evenly without cold or hot areas, a structure engineered for optimal atmospheric comfort, a structure that is much less depend on fossil fuels and electricity and an outcome of a resilient & purposeful build/renovation for your family.


Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
© Marco Petrini
Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
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Livingston Manor House
© Marco Petrini


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