HUDSON RIVER
VALLEY HOUSE

Type
Residential

Location
Milan, NY

Scope
Architecture
Interiors

Status
Built

 

A private residence composed of a complex of individual structures set on a 59-acre site.

  • 3,000 sf Main house

  • 2,500 sf Garage, caretaker apartment & gym

  • 2,000 sf Guest/pool house

  • Two 1,000 sf recreation structures

  • Swimming Pool

  • Tennis court

 
 
Corner view showing main house and garage building. Both structures are are clad in bleached Western Red cedar. Siding is custom milled and designed in a serrated form that changes with time as the sun moves across the sky. The house is punctuate…
 
 
Dusk view from slope looking towards main house courtyard with garage building beyond. The buildings, clad in bleached Western Red cedar and the courtyard in white glass-fiber reinforced concrete, are punctuated by a series of picture windows of va…
 
 
A landscape formed by glaciers.
The local geology is characterized by dramatic rock formations.
The reverence of existing stone in architecture is exhibited in this example of the Temple of the Sun built by the Inca in Machu Picchu.
The Hudson River Valley surrounded by mountains.

 In reverence to the Hudson River Valley’s lithic character,
its ancient origins, and views to the resulting landscape.

 
 
 
 
View from the highest point on site where the main buildings are located and looking towards the Catskill Mountains beyond. From this point one can also see the Taconic Mountains towards the east.
 
 
 
Concept sketch of the building located at the end of a path terminating at an opening at the site’s high point. The clearing affords views to the Catskill Mountains and Taconic Mountains beyond. The profile of the structure conceptually completes …
 
 

The building is situated at the end of a narrow, rocky path at the site’s highest point.
A clearing at the end of this path affords views to the mountains beyond.
Separate structures frame this opening and their form
completes the profile of the mountains beyond.

 
 
 
Site Plan showing complex of individual structures connected by a series of meandering gravel and bluestone paths. Main house and garage building frame the driving court, and the pool house and swimming pool are located down the hill.
 
 
 
 
View looking up driveway towards drive court at the top of the hill with mountain views on both sides — the Catskill Mountains to the west and Taconic Mountains to the east. The drive court is framed by the main house and garage structures. A seri…
 
 
View of main house entry from thedrive court with views of mountains beyond. The crushed bluestone gravel drive court is framed by the main house and garage structures. Buildings are clad in bleached, custom-milled Western Red cedar siding that c…
 
 
Dusk view from corner showing main house and garage building relationship. The house is punctuated by a series of strategically-placed picture windows and topped by a sharply angular standing seam metal roof.
Dusk view looking towards courtyard and terrace with fire pit. Dramatic interior lighting is visible though its extensive openings.
 
 
Dusk view looking from the existing woods looking towards the main house. Interior lighting accentuates the strategially-placed square window openings.
 
 
Dusk view looking towards courtyard and terrace with fire pit. The horseshoe shape of the building is evident from this angle. The buildings are clad in bleached Western Red cedar. The courtyard openings are structurally-glazed curtain wall and …
 
 
View looking from the outdoor viewing lounge that looks out to the sunset. This lounge is composed of a series of cut and polished boulders next to the dry stack stone wall framing the drive court. This facade of the building showcases the seemi…
 
 
View of garage building with bedroom suite above and main house with square windows in the distance. Cut and polished boulder seats in foreground. Products / Materials—Sapele windows and lift-slide doors: Duratherm; Light grey preweathered standing…
Curved, irregular oval infinity edge swimming pool. Black and dark blue interior gunite pool finish. Waterfall edge in black quarry tile. Pool house clad in bleached Western Red cedar with silver standing seam metal roof. Products / Materials—Sa…
 
 
The curved infinity edge pool is located on a sloping landscape. The water surface reflects the adjacent landscape and sky.
 
 
Plan of pool house, and irregular oval infinity edge swimming pool and surrounding pool deck.
 
The waterfall of the infinity edge pool is finished in black quarry tile. Projections in the wall increase the effect of falling water.
 
 
View downhill towards the pool house, swimming pool, and pool deck. A large flat zone was created in the sloped landscape and it is framed by a dry stack bluestone-clad retaining wall. The black infinity edge gunite swimming pool’s irregular curve…

General Contractor
Robert Bump Construction

Landscape Design
Christina Michas Landscape Design

Photography
Aislinn Weidele

 

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