via Messana O’Rorke Architects
Messana O’Rorke Architects: The project started with the purchase of a much-neglected Eighteenth Century homestead in an apple orchard located in Columbia County, New York.
The brief was to develop modern house within the existing frame and extend the house to provide additional accommodations. No restrictions were plced on the design except to respect the form the original Dutch House. The Spartan living conditions of the early settlers and te simple clean lines of their architecture were the inspiration to formulate a minimal design solution.
via Messana O’Rorke Architects
The design of the house developed organically; stripping back various additions and removing interior partitions from previous renovations revealed a classic house form, emulating a child perception of a house replete with four windows, a door, and sloped roof with a chimney on top.