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Inspired Modern Living
Zag House is a single-family home in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York, that's designed to
hold generous living spaces for a retired couple along with guest bedrooms for children and
grandchildren. It balances the client's desire for traditional residential forms and materials,
with an interest in exploring a more unexpected and unconventional composition.
To that end, the basic form of the house is an extruded gable, which has been bent into a
"zag." The three legs of the zag organize the house into three zones: bedrooms, living spaces,
and a garage. Ceiling heights in the bedrooms and garage are lowered, distorting the original
gable form, and reducing volume where it's not needed. Two rectilinear volumes are carved
from the zag at its bends to create two semi-covered outdoors spaces, an entry porch at the
front of the house, and an outdoor dining area at the back. Planting and glazing in and around
these outdoor spaces bring the outdoors in, and the indoors out.
Designed by Adam Dayem and Nick Sideropoulos , actual/office architecture
Visualization by iddqd studio
Designed by actual / office architecture, Brooklyn, NY, page 380
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