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When I come to the Six Square House I really have two almost conflicting feelings.
The first is a sense of calm and tranquility, and also a
sense of wonderment as you wander through this landscape and encounter different environments.
My name is Bryan Young I'm the founding principal of the Design and Architecture
Firm Young Projects based in New York City, I'm also the co-founder of the
furniture gallery Verso we're here at the six square house in Bridgehampton New York.
The context of the landscape it is in some
ways rural at the same time it is part of the Hampton's community.
The site is approximately 1.6 acres, towards the east there's a historic farmhouse from
the 1850s that we did a gut renovation to as well as a contemporary addition.
The Six Square House is in the middle of the property pushed to the south
so that you can really experience the full perimeter of the property.
You're also able to have access to the pool house
which is towards the west and you have incredible sunsets.
Expanding a bit on the client's brief, if one of the first goals was
to ensure that the house would have a relationship with the landscape,
the second goal was to think about how the house would serve her family.
The Six Square House is approximately 3,000 square ft and it serves as a kind of inner
sanctuary a very kind of tranquil and calm space where my client and
her immediate family would be able to come and be somewhat removed from her in-laws and
other guests who come and visit during the summer and stay in the front house.
So to walk a little bit through the program or the organisation of these six volumes.
When you first drive down on the long driveway and come upon the
house the first view are two symmetrical gables.
In between the two is a walkway that will take you to the front door that
allows you to enter into the house right in the centre.
The square that's in the middle that we're sitting in right now
is the kitchen volume and then to the back is the primary suite and primary bathroom.
So again each one of these volumes takes on a specific program that then can be reconsidered
over time and that's what gives the house a sense of flexibility in terms of its plan.
The six squares in their arrangement also have leftover equilateral and isosceles triangles,
so for example the courtyard in the middle of The Six Square House is a triangle by virtue of
where the squares are located in that sense the courtyard becomes an inner sanctuary, it's an
area in which the landscape of the courtyard can be experienced from anywhere within the house.
So from the outside, if each of the six volumes can be read as autonomous elements from the
inside you begin to realise that in fact they're conjoined in a very interesting way.
It was also really important to make sure that the house wouldn't feel foreign or
alien within the site, the first step to mitigate this condition was to ensure that
we had views from the interior to the most significant pieces of vegetation on the site.
Behind the house in a more private area there's an incredible fern garden, just to the north of
The Six Square House there's an open lawn condition, to the east of The Six Square
House you arrive and you first see the two gabled forms through a field of wild indigenous flowers.
The exterior of The Six Square House is essentially clad in two different species of wood.
The accoya wood which is dark and charred is used to clad
the entirety of the exterior as well as the roof volumes.
At the patio which is open air and at the courtyard we shifted from the
dark accoya wood to natural cedar and that was a decision to bring a kind of
warmth to the areas of the house that you would sit underneath and not necessarily
want to have the same slightly heavier quality that you have on the outside.
The interior of the house is relatively neutral,
the client has an incredible art collection and it was critical to ensure that the
walls of the house really served to almost be a domestic gallery space.
The windows are from Duratherm and they're wood,
white oak. The floors are also white oak, in the kitchen the island is a Calcutta we
folded each edge in order to give a little bit of thickness some heft and weight to
the island and also to do something that feels very peaceful and very kind of calm.
Right now at The Six Square House every piece you see on the floor is something that comes
from Verso, we're working with for example a young Brazilian company named a Estudio Rain
who have made these incredible voluptuous wood pieces and exist throughout the house.
I'm extremely proud to begin to see the ways in which the client has used this house in a
manner that's completely unexpected in terms of how it was designed and it's
really wonderful to begin to realise that the house can be a vehicle to provoke conversation,
to have unique experiences that have nothing to do with the initial planning.
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