Millerton House
21,000 SF
Millerton, NY
Completion 2011
The house is part of a 380-acre compound composed of a Guest House, Pool/Squash House, Tennis Pavilion and a working farm. Surrounded by low, rolling mountains and a picturesque pond, the house is intended to provide a spatious home for the owners and their art collection, In the words of the owners, they desired a "museum to live in".
The development of the house massing evolved over a year changing from a monumental roof shape into the final design expressing three distinct roofs connected by a flat section. From a distance, the house appears as a collection of seperate volumes.
Internally, the house employs an "open plan" that is in contrast to the exterior forms giving the house a room to room, spatial continuity. Art pieces will be located strategically converting hallways into galleries and complementing the large vistas of the dramatic landscape.
At the center of the house is a glass elevator topped by skylights. Wrapping around the partially glazed elevator core is a stair fully supported by glass allowing light to descend to the basement level.
Surrounding the entire perimeter is a stone terrace which deflects and steps with the landscape. It also extrudes into a volume at the lower level garage entrance area.
The house employes several sustainable energy systems including,geothermal heating/cooling, hidden solar hot water heating roof tiles, solar panels, daylight reactive lighting and green materials. As a totality, these syetem will provide 75% of the energy required to power the house.
The Millerton House is the inaugural project for Workshop For Construction, the General Contractor for the project and also the "build" arm of Workshop For Architecture.
