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EX OF IN HOUSE, HUDSON VALLEY

2016

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PROGRAM: Guest House / Artist Residence

SIZE: 918 sf

STATUS: Complete

The Ex of In House explores a language of space, aimed at inner spatial energy strongly bound to the ecology of the place – questioning current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice. The house is a built manifestation of the research and development project Explorations of “IN” under development at Steven Holl Architects since June 2014.

SEVEN POINT MANIFESTO FOR EXPLORATIONS OF “IN”

1. TO STUDY ARCHITECTURE FREED FROM THE PURELY OBJECTIVE.

2. FROM ORIGINS OF ARCHITECTURE WE EXPLORE “IN”.

3. “IN”: ALL SPACE IS SACRED SPACE.

4. THE ARCHITECTURE OF “IN” DOMINATES SPACE VIA SPACE.

5. INTRINSIC “IN” IS AN ELEMENTAL FORCE OF SENSUAL BEAUTY.

6. “IN” IS USELESS, BUT IN THE FUTURE WILL BE USED.
PURPOSE FINDS “IN”.

7. THE THING CONTAINING IS NOT THE THING CONTAINED.

On twenty-eight acres of forested rock outcropping, the site named ‘T2 reserve’ has been established as an experimental topological landscape. Slated to be a subdivision with five suburban house plots, the site was joined into one natural preserved landscape.

As a compressed form of 918 square feet on a site of twenty-eight preserved rural acres, the house serves as an alternative to modernist suburban houses that “sprawl in the landscape”. Instead, the Ex of In is a house of compression and inner voids.

The house’s geometry is formed from spherical spaces intersecting with tesseract trapezoids intended as a catalyst of volumetric inner space. The geometry of the spherical intersections begins to be felt at the entry porch; an orb of wood carved out of the house volume welcomes the entrant.

The shift in section of the house alters internal space with vertical dynamic spatial overlap. Situated around one main volume, open to the second level, with the kitchen placed in the center, alternative use patterns are created. There are zero bedrooms, yet the house can sleep five.

Instead of fossil fuel, the house is heated geothermally.

Instead of grid power, the house has electricity from the sun.

Thin film SoloPower photovoltaic cells are connected to a Sonnen battery energy storage system, allowing the house to be energy independent. All light fixtures are 3D printed in PLA cornstarch-based bioplastic. Glass and wood are locally sourced.

The house was made almost entirely from raw materials by the builders, crafting solid mahogany window and door frames, a mahogany stair and birch plywood walls. There is no use of sheetrock. The spherical intersection space was also crafted in curved, thin wood layers. All natural oiled wood and plywood interior finishes are part of the arte povera materiality and economy of this place of wabi-sabi.

FOR RESIDENTIAL INQUIRIES
Molly Blieden, Managing Associate
t + 1 212 629-7262 x14
molly@stevenholl.com

Ecological Innovation +

–地热能恒温系统

–使用回收的Poraver 作为墙壁的建筑物料

–屋顶安装了Solar flex 太阳能板

–纯天然无加工木材内饰:超隔热桦木

–隔膜结构墙由胶合板建成

–灯具由以玉米淀粉为基础的生物塑料(PLA)3D打印而成

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  • architect

    - Steven Holl Architects

    Steven Holl (design architect, principal)

    Dimitra Tsachrelia (project architect, associate)

    Yuliya Savelyeva, Ruoyu Wei, Michael Haddy (project team)

  • structural engineer

    - Robert Silman Associates

  • climate engineers

    - Transsolar

  • contractor

    - JLP Home Improvement

    Javier Gomez

News +


  • 2021 03/13 “Hudson Valley AirBnB is an ‘Architectural Wonder’
  • 2017 04/06 The Steven Myron Holl Foundation Announces a New Summer Architecture Fellowship in Rhinebeck, New York
  • 2017 04/10 Manifesto Holl
  • 2015 07/22 The Ex of In House by Steven Holl Architects
  • 2016 10/26 Steven Holl’s unusual upstate guest home challenges McMansions with its quirky design
  • 2016 10/24 In with the ‘IN’ crowd
  • 2016 11/07 Ex of IN House Steven Holl Architects
  • 2016 10/25 Steven Holl’s Upstate ‘Ex of In House’ is an experiment in voids and sense of place
  • 2016 04/01 Steven Holl – Ex of In House
  • 2016 07/04 Nature, life, art and architecture: Steven Holl’s Indoor/Outdoor house
  • 2016 07/06 EX of IN Experimental House celebrates its opening in Rhinebeck, NY
  • 2017 01/13 Ex of IN: A Conversation with Steven Holl & Dimitra Tsachrelia
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