NViILA NM ew York House, Catskills residence photos, Architect building design, Modern NY home images
ViILA NM New York : House by UNStudio
New York State residence, Catskills, USA design by UN Studio
Apr 18, 2014 – new larger photos added to this page
ViILA NM, New York, USA
Dates built: 2000-07 ; date destroyed: 2008
Design: UNStudio Architects
Location: Upstate New York, Catskills, USA
Family summerhouse
photograph © Christian Richters
ViILA NM
VilLA NM
Sadly on February 5th 2008 VilLA NM in Upstate New York was destroyed by fire.
Family house: simple rectilinear form floating above landscape thus evoking seminal modern houses by Mies van er Rohe (Farnsworth) and Philip Johnson in America
The house was realised in April 2007 and was featured in a number of magazine articles, including a feature in the New York Times Magazine (October 2007).
VilLA NM also received an award in the Bienal Miami 2007 and was the runner up in the Best New Private House category in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2008.
UNStudio hopes to be able to rebuild VilLA NM in the future.
photograph © Christian Richters
In the design for this single family house the sloping site is used as a device for programmatic and volumetric organization. A box-like volume bifurcates into two separate volumes; one seamlessly following the northern slope; the other lifted above the hill creating a covered parking space and generating a split-level internal organization. The volumetric transition is generated by a set of five parallel walls that rotate along a horizontal axis from vertical to horizontal. The ruled surface maintaining this transition is repeated five times in the building. From inside the huge window strips from floor to ceiling allow a fluid continuity between interior and landscape. From the exterior the reflective glass seams to become one with its surroundings.
photograph © Christian Richters
ViILA NM New York – Building Inforrmation
Client: Anonymous
Location: Upstate New York, USA
Building area: 300 m2
Programme: Single family house
Status/phase: Construction/ realization August 2006
Photography: Christian Richters
photograph © Christian Richters
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Olaf Gipser and Andrew Benn, Colette Parras, Jacco van Wengerden, Maria Eugenia Diaz, Jan Debelius, Martin Kuitert, Pablo Rica, Olga Vazquez-Ruano Advisors
Project Consultant: Roemer Pierik, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
UNStudio Media Release
photos from UNStudio Architects: images © Christian Richters
ViILA NM house – Catskills residence images / information from UNStudio
ViILA NM architects : UNStudio
Location: Catskills, New York, USA
New York Architectural Designs
New York Architecture Designs – chronological list
New York State Architecture Designs – NY State
New York Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:
Holley House, Garrison, New York
SAR Academy, Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School, Jesselson Campus, 655 West 254th Street Riverdale, NY 10471, USA
Design: architects Esther Sperber and Hila Stern
image courtesy of architecture studio
SAR Academy, Orthodox Jewish Day School
New York City Architecture – Manhattan
Modern American house : Farnsworth House
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Website: ViILA NM UNStudio page
