Located several hours outside of New York City and perched on top of a small ridge, the Hexagon House combines living space and an artist’s studio into a single structure. Inspired by the practice of landscape painting in situ, popularized by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and the Impressionists, this project uses the 120 degree relationship between each side of the hexagonal form to reference the act of painting outdoors as well as create a more meaningful relationship between “the art” and “the view”…the “observed” and the “fabricated”.
This oblique relationship between subject and object that characterizes the creative act of seeing and making, is referenced throughout the entirety of the house, and forcefully defines the qualitative character of the space. Large format sliding glass doors punctuate the facade, alternating with solid “rammed earth” walls that support an undulating roof above, and are intended to feature art along the interior surface of the space they define.
