Living in an art gallery among sculptures and paintings…wouldn’t it be wonderful to rest peacefully in such an inspiring space?
A very special home captures this unique concept: Guesthouse is a country house, built for two art collectors, located on a slope in upstate New York, about two hours by car from Manhattan. This contemporary getaway home also serves as a small gallery for the owner’s art collections…
A mystical relation between life and art was carefully developed in this small project. The distribution of the program reveals the strong commitment that nature, architecture and art assume in this peculiar building: a Y-shaped layout was designed in order to assemble the different components of such a hybrid space.
The building itself is a work of art, with its strong sculptural presence of a volume resting on a concrete wall that gradually disappears into the green slope.
The plan is composed by a bedroom, living room, entry hall and an art gallery. Service rooms are mainly reduced to a bathroom, a kitchenette, a walk-in closet and a garage space placed in the basement.
Guesthouse is built as a wooden skeleton clad in corrugated Corten steel. All the interior is made in wood (from ceiling to pavement surfaces) offering the warmth of trees that surround the entire house. In fact, the landscape plays a decisive role in this original architectonic solution where each bedroom proposes a different perspective of the countryside. Also the corrugated steel facade allows the natural merge between architecture and nature… especially in the fall, when the leaves turn into distinctive reds and yellows that slowly cover the roof of the already rusted Guesthouse…
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