Architects:Dean-Wolf Architects

Area :2000 ft²

Year :2017

Photographs :Paul Warchol

Manufacturers :  Dornbracht, Lutron, B&B Italia, Duratherm, Duravit, Flos, Grohe, Miele, Sherwin-Williams, Subzero/Wolf, Tnemec, ADM Sink, AMD Grating, Anzor, Benjamin Moore, Benson Steel, Blu Bathworks, Bosch, Colonial Bronze, Custom Table, +22DLine, DaVinci Collection, DuraVent, E&T Plastics, EnviroCept Companies, FSB Franz Schneider Brakel, GP Wood, Housatonic Hardwoods, Ingo Maurer, LINEA, La Canache, Latoscana, Maloya Laser, Minka Aire, NEWPORT BRASS, Rohl, Simpson Strong Tie, SlantFin, Stone Source, Supreme Fireplace, Viracon, Zephyr-22Dornbracht

Lead Architect :Kathryn Dean

Landscape Architect :Reed Hilderbrand

Geotechnical Engineering :Crawford & Associates

Engineering :Hage Engineering

Landscape Contractor :Webster Landscapes

Associate Partner : Chris Kroner

Technical Consultant : Charles Wolf

Project Team : Zachary Rousou

City : Austerlitz

Country : United States

Ephemeral Edge is a weekend retreat and retirement home located three hours north of New York City. As a retreat, the goal of the project was to contrasts the rapid sense of time and pressure of the city and extend the enjoyment and sensuousness of the everyday passage of time that is often highlighted in the open landscape. The sense of extended time is accomplished by taking advantage of the site—a forested hillside which contains a constructed pond and overlooks a distant view. The design is informed by four site conditions: the curving edge of the pond, the torqued banks necessary to construct the pond, the spindly edge of the forest clearing, and the quiet beauty of the distant view.