Southampton
2025 See-saw House
The playful and romantic family home is a 4,300 square foot refuge on one clear acre surrounded by farmland that gestures toward the forest at the southern edge. Fortress stone walls undulate at the perimeter, elevating the barn-like structures that mimic those of neighboring potato farms. The four-season home sequences multiple outdoor “rooms”, from the entryway with its steel drawbridge-like canopy and flanking reflecting pools; to a central courtyard garden that provides cross-ventilation; to roof terraces with insulating local grasses. See-saws buff limestone walls weave through the home and property, giving a sense of refuge while bringing textures of the nearby famed beaches to the property. A future pool will be sited at the uppermost secluded zone. Thumbnail sketches investigate site relations and sunlight. High-tech continuous insulation methods, with almost zero thermal bridging, assist in passive cooling. Copyright VSA, 2024
Watermill
2015/2020 Scuttle Hole Road
A gut renovation, we transformed a dilapidated Watermill ranch house on a tight budget to an efficient, barn-chic cheerful modern cabin; it melds into its context of glorious potato farmlands with enhanced VSA landscaping design. The home utilizes salvaged cedar wood for new front barn doors; large glass sliding doors to open onto vistas, new steel cables and wide cedar deck, copper and wood roof. We eliminated an awkward 80s bay windows for a streamlined look that resonates with adjacent farmland. The boldly colored sliding doors serve as protective shudders and open onto a breakfast terrace with landscaped path to a pavilion and gravel drive. The pavilion, added years after the renovation, was likened by the New York Times to the work of Phillip Johnson in the article, Pavilions are the Space Between Art and Architecture, 2021.
Landscaping by VSA creates border garden at the pool.
Continuous oversized sliders bring the outdoors in, and create a sun-filled main space for family. Off-white stain on sanded, old oak floors
2018 Watermill Renovation
VSA as Architect of record, and consultant. Design by Fani Budic/Metre Design.
