[Sagaponac] Sagaponac House #4 - Shigeru Ban & Dean Maltz

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"Shigeru Ban's design for Sagaponac House 4 employes a spatial division of the house into four seperate zones of public and private use" from the AMERICAN DREAM - THE HOUSES OF SAGAPONAC




The references to Mies van der Rohe are clear, and the entire house is based on the modular of the cabinet system you will see in the images. The cabinet system is also a classic look at mass production and standardization of components for a highly engineered product. These units are not only structural but very functional. They form spatial divisions while creating indoor and outdoor
spaces.

Link to project (http://www.housesatsagaponac.com/Architect_images-rev/Ban/ShigeruBan.htm)

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ARCHITECT'S NOTES:

The Furniture House is a weekend house on a flat wooded lot in Sagaponac, New York.

The Developer's concept for a modestly priced modern speculative house and an expansive site led to the integration of two ideas: a re-interpretation of the inexpensive and time-efficient mass production advocated in early modernism, and the open space planning of Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt Brick Country House.

In the early twentieth century, modern architecture explored standardization and mass production as an efficient means of achieving a low cost product. The Furniture House is conceived along these lines and is furthered by both an innovative approach to mass produced units and the understanding that architectural standardization can lead to spatial elasticity.

The furniture in this house is not traditionally imagined, designed or executed. It is comprised of modular, full height furniture units which become elements of structural support, spatial division and storage (closets, bookcases, cabinetry, lighting and packaged HVAC units). Because the furniture units are pre-fabricated in a controlled factory environment, no skilled workers are needed on site for furniture production. These units work as a modular system in which two people can move, position and install each piece. The furniture is pre-finished on the interior and exterior. If a furniture unit composes an exterior wall, sheathing is applied for waterproofing and insulation. The remainder of the building systems involves site-built floor slabs, roof and curtain wall glazing.

Shigeru Ban's development of structural furniture began in 1983 and to date, four Furniture Houses have been built in Japan and China. The Sagaponac Furniture House marks the adaptation of the system to the American virtues of large expansive spaces. In total, the planning is a cohesion of open interior and exterior space planning and inventive simple, human-proportioned building components.

With no particular client in mind and no particular site constraints the floor plan and elevations of the home are based on an analysis of the Brick Country House by Mies van der Rohe. The geometry is derived from the analysis and is adapted to fit the conditions of the unique structural system.

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Entry 2

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Cabinet - Structural Modular

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Entry Canopy Support Detail

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Cabinet Entry Rythem

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Pool View

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Looking Back At House From Canopy

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Pool Bar Lounge Area

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Bedroom Patio

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Pool

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Exterior Shot

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Outdoor Fireplace

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Sliding Door Units

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Main Spaces - 1 (bedrooms straight and to the left - Entry Right)

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Main Spaces - 2 (Entry Behind Camera - Maing Living to Left Bedrooms Beyond)

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Main Spaces - 3 ( Looking at Main Living Space)

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Main Spaces - 4 (looking further left)

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Main Spaces - 5 (Chimney)

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Main Spaces - 6 (Slider)

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Main Spaces - 6 (Slider Open)

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Track Detail

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Corner Glass

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Sill Condition

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Head Detail

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Slider Sill Conditon

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Slider Head Detail With Wood Exterior

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Interior Jamb Detail

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Hall to Kitchen - Cardboard Columns

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Kitchen

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Cabintery

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Drawer Detail

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Detail 2

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Sorry for jumping around - Entry

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Just Inside

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Typical Bath

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Bath Image

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Tile Wood Detail

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Door Hardware -

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Door Hardware Continued

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Finger Jointed Panels :not worth

That detailed happened at corners as well...

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Hall to Bedrooms

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Hall Again

[imasayer]

Damn......:rock on:

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and for primo -------------

And MODEL SLIDESHOW (http://www.housesatsagaponac.com/Architect_images-rev/Ban/Slideshow/3.htm)

[jparchitectus]

If Digdoi wants to model...I can get him a plan :)

[franjayo]

Great photos and project, thanks!

[sigue2000]

I thank you for getting in there and sharing the experience.
A very beautiful and serene project.:cheers:

Is it just me or do I see a lot of Mies in there?
Brick country house 1929

[jparchitectus]

I thank you for getting in there and sharing the experience.
A very beautiful and serene project.:cheers:

Is it just me or do I see a lot of Mies in there?
Brick country house 1929

It oozes Meis...I thought that and witnessed it...I will scan his plan tomorrow...

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Even Faster -

Plan

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Model

[wizum]

great Post JP... did you get all these before you got kicked out? man... nice work before being detected :)

[nicholas]

Fantastic! Thank you; great shots of the details...very useful!

[_C3]

Pffffeeeewww!!!... :eek: WOOOW :eek:
:rock on: :clap: :craqueur: :not worth

That's awesome JP, thank you so much. All the details we've ever dreamed to see up close. And still during construction, that's even better!
However, I don't want to be asking too much, but I will...:D
...it would be nice to have some details of the roof, how did they manage rain water on this flat roof? And what is it made of?...
Thank you again :cheers:

[takesh h]

Yeah, construction photos are always eloquent but hard to get.
I wonder how Jason managed to get himself in there... Well done.
:craqueur:
PS; for those of you who developed fetishism to condtruction photos, there is a Construction Photos Gallery at archinect (http://archinect.com/gallery/index.php). Right now you can see Zaha's formwork and some of Gehry's rebars there!

[cacapis]

Even though the floor plan looks a lot like mies, the language reminds me a lot of the case study houses. Anyways in both cases the intention of integration with the landscape is very simmilar.
Question. Are those white v-shaped columns also made of paper?

[tdmc]

Great images - and especially the close ups/construction details - I was wondering about the glazing and a few slides later voila!!

Interetsing use of the soft wood tones inside - makes the house feel warm/cosy as a contrast its openness.

The model, its shadows - reminiscent of stonehenge - unexpected event there!

[spadestick]

This is truly a great post JP, more than 5 star, I give it 6 stars!:not worth

[jparchitectus]

great Post JP... did you get all these before you got kicked out? man... nice work before being detected :)

The day I went we got the boot...they had an opening to sell it the following Sunday.

Affordable :wondering

Web #: H0157888
Neighborhood: Sagaponack
Listing Price: $2,950,000
Taxes: $4,139

Acres: 1.63
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 4.5
Style: Contemporary
Condition:
Construction:
Year Built: 2006

[cheffey]

The girl in post #30 does look a bit sneaky. Guerilla Architectural Photography at it's finest. Thank you JP!

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Pffffeeeewww!!!... :eek: WOOOW :eek:
:rock on: :clap: :craqueur: :not worth

That's awesome JP, thank you so much. All the details we've ever dreamed to see up close. And still during construction, that's even better!
However, I don't want to be asking too much, but I will...:D
...it would be nice to have some details of the roof, how did they manage rain water on this flat roof? And what is it made of?...
Thank you again :cheers:


I was very curious about the flat roof also. It appears to not have a curb detail and internal drains, but rather the entire "plane" is pitched 1/8" per foot to one side...no gutters, no drains to get plogged....cheaper and pretty smart

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Even though the floor plan looks a lot like mies, the language reminds me a lot of the case study houses. Anyways in both cases the intention of integration with the landscape is very simmilar.
Question. Are those white v-shaped columns also made of paper?

No only the ones near the kitchen. Those were steel

[WilsonMetry]

JP,
Thanks so much. I really appreciate you and all your hard working posting projects like this!:craqueur:



So is the house new or is it a remodel?

[GinSoakedBoy]

Great photos JP
It's really interesting to see a house like this being built =)
Thanks

[cheffey]

So is the house new or is it a remodel?

I believe it's a group of new designer houses, see the link on the first post.
http://www.housesatsagaponac.com/

[WilsonMetry]

I believe it's a group of new designer houses, see the link on the first post.
http://www.housesatsagaponac.com/

I missed that...Thanks

[SWANK-E]

wow, so many people are viewing this thread today due to the link from MocoLoco and ApartmentTherapy as mentioned on THIS (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5022) thread.

hi to all the new people out there visiting this site for the first time.
make sure you take some time to visit some of the other parts of the forum.

:cheers:

[cacapis]

It was just mentioned in archidose too
Wow, 22 users in this thread cool

[chris (nyc)]

It was a search for "Sagaponac", and finding this thread that lead me to PushPullBar in the first place.

[jparchitectus]

I really should get to some of the other projects and take some pictures...these days though they kick you off the sites or do not allow you there all together.

[cacapis]

you can sneak on a clear night and take some shots. I used to do that when I was 15 in a couple of nearby interesting buildings. Unfortunately I didn't take my camera along

[jparchitectus]

I will have you do that when you come out here...