新老房子丨美国纽约丨Julian King Architect

Architect：Julian King Architect

Location：NYC, NY, USA; | ;View Map

Project Year：2024

Category：Private Houses

The project was the renovation of a small two bedroom/one bath house built in 1926, that by all measures was a “tear down”, into an energy efficient three bedroom/two bath home, with a new study/home office/playroom, and extended South wall to make up for sf lost to a new hallway to the addition, adding a total of approx. 300 sf.

Stripping away the applied Dutch colonial trim, and false eaves, and returning the structure to its pure square gabled form, drawing from the history of the area (formerly all farmland outside of NYC), it was clad in reclaimed barnwood siding, in contrast with a “new” smooth sculptural addition, generated by the surrounding trees—twisting around large adjacent pine trees— seemingly causing its side to bulge out under the tree canopy, creating a gap between the “old” and “new”. One steps out of the “old” house across a skylight slot, and glass floor, and into a modern skylit addition within the trees.

In the end, it speaks to issues raised when renovating and adding to an old house, (what is new, and what is old?), and in juxtaposing an addition that embodies contemporary ideas of living with nature; (the surrounding trees and sky inexorably intertwined with the design), alongside an almost archetypal image of the old paradigm—a square gabled structure (the proportions of a corn crib barn)—of us against the elements, reveals overlapping truths. 

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