Pound Ridge, New York
该建筑位于纽约州的庞德里奇，是由理查德·迈耶设计的一个未建成项目。这个住宅被设计在一个多岩石、多树木的内部地段，周围由树木包围，采用开放和封闭空间的设计模式，跟随自然路径穿越景观。进入住宅，首先看到的是厨房和实用空间，它们被设计在一个厚实的墙体之中。客厅和餐厅位于后面的三层玻璃幕墙内，主卧室则浮在玻璃幕墙上方。该住宅的设计旨在增强自然环境的感性体验，允许多种视角、透视和反射。
The House in Pound Ridge, an unbuilt project, is designed for a rocky, wooded site, an interior lot open at the center and surrounded by trees, joined to the road by a long and narrow right-of-way. The pattern of open and closed spaces traces a natural path through the landscape. Approached by the right-of-way through an avenue of trees, the slope of the land rises gradually. It continues to rise to the east, while falling to a steep ravine on the southwest.
A series of existing rubble stonewalls is used to delimit the cleared section of the land and to define the sequence of the house and its outbuildings. The right-of-way ends outside the compound at the caretaker’s cottage and garage. Behind this, steps lead through a break in the old wall, a point of transition from a rugged to a more manicured landscape. At this point, the garage, the north corner of the main house, and the pool house at the southeast end of the site together describe a sight line through the property and the trees.
The house is elevated through a solid frontal plane. Inside, this place reveals itself to be a thickened “wall” containing kitchen, utility space, and, on the second level, guest bedrooms with private roof decks above. A spiral staircase giving access to the guest bedrooms is exposed on the façade by a two-story cutout with curved glazing. Most of the light enters through small windows punched in the wood-baring walls or through the skylights.
To the solid front zone of the house is attached a transparent three-level glazed pavilion facing the rear of the site and containing living and dining areas at ground level. The master-bedroom module floats asymmetrically above, anchored to the ground by a top-lit garret staircase that provides access to it. The solid volume of this stair projects beyond the glazed enclosure of the pavilion and the extension at the rear is meant to answer the inset at the entrance. The master bedroom cannot be reached directly from the guest rooms in front; the open side of the house must be crossed at ground level, an arrangement that maintains the privacy of the owner’s suite. This distribution of the private areas in the house defines the basic parti: a broken T-shaped volume superimposed on a glass box.
From the glazed zone of the house there is a 270-degree view, through the window walls and the grid of the steel columns to a natural wall of trees beyond. The large expanses of glass, interrupted only by the projecting staircase, the chimney, and a balcony from the master bedroom, bring the exterior environment within, while the dense woods outside filter and modulate incoming sunlight. Throughout, the architectural organization is designed to enhance the sensuous experience of the natural environment, allowing for a multiplicity of views, perspectives, and reflections.