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HOUSE AT MARTHA’S VINEYARD

Martha's Vineyard, MA, United States. 1988

Description +

PROGRAM: private residence

SIZE: 2,800 sq ft

STATUS: Complete

The site is a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean as it meets Vineyard Sound. Strict code determines that the house be set back from the marshland from a no-build zone and it should have a 1-story elevation when viewed from the beach. In the locally inspired novel Moby Dick, Melville describes an Indian tribe, which made a particular type of dwelling on the island. Finding a beached whale skeleton, they would pull it to dry land and stretch skins over it, transforming it into a house. Inspired by this practice, the house is an inside-out balloon frame structure, elevated over the landscape. The wooden “bones” of the frame carry an encircling veranda affording ocean views. Along its porch, wood members receive the naturally growing vines of the island. These tendrils transform the straight linear architecture.

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

Ecological Innovation +

–由天然风化的木材建造

–壁炉由当地收集的石头砌成的混凝土制成

Credits +

  • architect

    - Steven Holl Architects

    Steven Holl (design architect)

    Peter Lynch (project architect)

    Stephen Cassell, Ralph Nelson, Peter Shinoda (project team)

  • structural engineer

    -

    Robert Lawson

  • general contractor

    - Doyle Construction

  • custom steel/brass work

    - Alvin Cooke Metal Works

News +


  • 2018 08/28 Remembering the House at Martha’s Vineyard

Awards +


  • 1986 Progressive Architectur Citation
  • 1999 AIA National Honor Award
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