Sagaponac House 14
Sagaponac, N.Y.
Hariri & Hariri ­ Architecture

Houses at Sagaponac, Inc.

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Composed of two simple rectangular volumes forming an L-shaped plan, Sagaponac House 14 frames not only its occupants view of the landscape, but also their social interactions. The house's main public space is the swimming pool area that includes multileveled terraces and a covered porch with a shower. This space, accessible and visible to all other parts of the house, and at times visible to the neighbors and the street, exhibits the house's dramatic quality. It becomes a stage for action and display.

In fact, the design of the house was inspired by Alberto Giacometti's sculpture, Figure in a Box between Two Boxes which are Houses. Like that sculpture, the house features a large opening within each rectangular volume. These openings appear and disappear via a system of metal shutters mounted on the exterior walls. The metal shutters act not only as shields against intruders when no one is at home, but also alternately reveal and conceal private and public hidden motivations and exchanges within and beyond the house.

Formal name of building:
Sagaponac House 14

Location:
Sagaponac, N.Y.

Gross square footage:
5,000 sq. ft.

Architect:
Hariri & Hariri – Architecture
18 East 12th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10003
www.haririandhariri.com

Principals: Gisue Hariri & Mojgan Hariri
Project Architect: Thierry Pfister & Markus Randler

Engineer
Robert Silman and Associates

General Contractors
Brown and O'Dwyer Contracting and Construction LLC