Sélection de projets architecturaux par l’agence américaine Maya Lin Studio
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The Box House nichée à Telluride dans les montagnes du Colorado. Réalisée en 2006 en collaboration avec la firme new-yorkaise Bialosky + Partners, Architects & Planners
« Situated in the mountains in southwestern Colorado, this 4000 square foot residence evolved out of a desire to create the simplest of forms – a wooden box – set at the edge of an aspen forest. The structure is composed of two separate wood clad volumes connected by two levels of outdoor decks. The larger main house emerges from the aspen grove while the second box is embedded within the forest.
In each floor plan one interior wooden box is set within the larger volume – there are no other interior walls. The house is in essence a box within a box. The hidden sliding panels and doors concealed within the interior boxes operate to define the different rooms, from the master bedroom to the master bath to the upstairs study. Privacy from room to room is maintained, though the box can open up completely to create rooms that flow from one zone to the next. The exterior volume has hinged wooden shutters that frame the outdoor decks that open up to create exterior spaces that extend into the landscape. When the client is away, the box literally closes up, shuttering itself in.
The house frames the exterior, giving one a new way of looking at the landscape and surrounding mountain range. The house provides a full 270-degree panoramic view that unfolds as one walks through. »
Manhattanville Sanctuary & Environmental Learning Lab, Harrison, NY, restaurée en 2006 en collaboration avec la firme David Hotson and Associates
« The design for Manhattanville encompasses the reclamation and restoration of a historic sanctuary as a greenhouse and the design of a new 1000 square foot environmental learning center, which creates a complex for students and highlights energy-efficient building practices. The objective of the project is to create an environment that responds to the dynamic conditions of the natural world- becoming a teaching tool to let students study and analyze the effects of passive solar building technologies as well as the effects of a living system that naturally purifies a nearby stream.
The restored chapel maintains an original weathered masonry shell, enclosed beneath a new transparent glass roof. The existing crypt is used to cool the temperature in the summer months while the glass roof traps heat in the fall and spring.
The new classroom building adjacent to the chapel sits as a backdrop to the architecture’s water filtration pool. This « living machine » is an illustrative component of the building and site’s ecological principles. The classroom structure utilizes a solar trom wall and a ground coupled heat exchange to warm the building. To further insulate the building in the winter, the structure’s western and eastern walls shut down, leaving only the southern glass face to collect the day’s heat.
The Riggio-Lynch Chapel Children’s Defense Fund, Clinton, TN, 2004, en collaboration avec Bialosky + Partners, Architects & Planners, New York City.
« At the heart of the design is the abstracted image of a boat or ark that is constructed out of wood and forms the main body of the Chapel. It is both a quiet reminder of the motto of the Children’s Defense Fund, « Dear Lord be good to me/ The Sea is so wide/and my boat is so small » and a contextual design decision that allows for the introduction of a modern boat like form into a setting that includes numerous historical log cabins.
The design is comprised of the wooden chapel, a concrete block administration building and a covered open-air terrace connecting the two structures. This outdoor area provides additional seating for the rare times during the year when a larger capacity is required, yet allows the design to maintain an intimate scale that is more in keeping with the surrounding historic cabins. The back of the chapel opens up completely to the terrace. Canvas pull down side walls were hidden in the trellis so that the terrace can be tented in times of inclement weather, creating an outdoor room for additional programming. »
Children’s Defense Fund, Clinton, TN, 1999 en collaboration avec Martella Associates
« The design of the Langston Hughes Library maintains the integrity and character of the old barn while introducing a new inner layer. This integration of old and new allowed the artist to leave the main body of the building exposed and untouched and build the library within the existing structure.
The interior expresses the idea of a separate inner skin slipping inside the old barn. It is only at the points where the two layers meet that one becomes aware of the transition from old to new.
The buildings incorporate recycled and green materials throughout, and the mechanical system is connected to a nearby pond that acts as a natural heat sink which helps regulate the temperature of the buildings.
In both the Library and Chapel Lin was able to create outdoor rooms that help maximize the spaces while affording the visitor a strong visual connection the surrounding landscape. »
belle découverte
merci Alain
Superbe le chalet ! Dommage qu’il ne soit pas à Méribel !…
flo, bravo.
Raffiné, sensible, élégant, et simple, simple… Comment y parvenir?
@Colette
merci colette, c’est vrai que je l’imaginerait bien vers l’altiport, au milieu des sapins ..
@maurice
merci encore pour votre assentiment maurice. pour y parvenir, suivez moi .. sur reflexdéco !