Home for a Historian, New York

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This small (see first floor plan drawing below) house for a historian is a sanctuary for the owner's prized book collection. Its exterior is clad in copper and core-ten steel: these earthy colours and a cantilevered first floor suggest a mass that has been sculpted from solid bedrock, whilst having been wedged in-between trees in the surrounding wood. The house has an intimate interior with douglas fir details and weaved furniture, and the dramatic lighting in the living space are the result of an effectively designed narrow roof light. The architecture was intended as a "mutable presence in the landscape,” according to the architect Andrew Berman.