Architects:1100 Architect

Area :14000 ft²

Year :2019

Photographs :Peter Aaron/OTTO

Manufacturers :  AutoDesk, Dornbracht, Miele, Schüco, Subzero/Wolf, Dinesen Flooring, ENP Agencement, European Home, Gorgona Best, Stone SourceAutoDesk

MEP Engineer :TE2

Civil Engineer :Doyle House

Acoustical Consultant :Houghton Associates

Interior Designer :McAlpine House, Ray Booth

Landscape :Reed Hilderbrand

Geotechnical Engineer :Sanborn, Head & Associates

Structural Engineering :Silman

Design Team : David Piscuskas, Susanne Milne, Chloe Rice, Kelsey Odom, Daphne Shin, William Ruffenach, Kriti Garg, Heiman Luk, Kenneth Nielsen, Jason O’Koren, Ida Tam, Christie Yeung

Clients : Confidential

City : Wellesley

Country : United States

Set in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where white clapboard-clad vernacular houses abound, this new house stands as a contemporary response to that architectural tradition.

The form responds directly to careful evaluations of views, internal adjacencies, spatial optimization, and municipal regulations. It also emerges from how the client wanted to see the house: as a white cube set in the landscape. Rather than a single, massive white cube, the architects designed the volume as two cubes that each intersect the other. Doing so modulated the house’s scale while delivering the geometric effect the clients wanted. To reinforce the impact of that geometry, the design keeps the façade completely taut, with siding panels and windows set in a flat surface.