Architects: Della Valle Bernheimer
Location: Town of Hillsdale, Columbia County, NY, USA
Partner in Charge: Andrew Bernheimer
Project Manager: Erik Helgen
Project Team: Brian Butterfield
Client: Andrew, Nicole, and Isaac Bernheimer
Contractor: Andrew Bernheimer with Dean Contracting
Project Area: 2,590 sq ft
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Richard Barnes
The Copper House is located in the Hudson Valley on a wooded, six-acre site two hours north of New York City. Clad almost entirely in corrugated copper siding and a mixture of flat-seam and standing seam copper roofing, the skin will age and develop a patina that reflects time through material changes. The three-bedroom house features distinctive, sculpted south-facing skylights that allow light into various public and private spaces.
The ground floor contains two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, and a home office. An eight-foot tall, 30-foot-long, open bookshelf system runs the length of the ground floor creating a sense of delineation between rooms, while retaining visual connections across the various spaces. The second floor contains a master bedroom, playroom, and attic space, with windows overlooking the sculpted copper skylights.
Products in this project
Bathroom Equipment: RIFRA, California Faucets
- Bathroom cabinets by RIFRA
- Bathroom plumbing fittings by RIFRA
- Bathroom plumbing fixtures by California Faucets
Construction materials, Semi-finished materials: Colonial
- Hardware by Colonial
Facades: Uniclad
- Cooper by Uniclad
Floor: Pheoneix Organics, Flor, Stone Source
- Flooring: wood by Pheoneix Organics
- Flooring: carpet by Flor
- Flooring: ceramic tile, stone or concrete by Stone Source
Joinery: Veld-wen, Velux
- Windows by Veld-wen
- Skylights/roof windows by Velux
Kitchen Equipment: General Electrics, KWL, Schiffini, Bosch
- Oven by General Electrics
- Kitchen plumbing fixtures by KWL
- Countertops by Schiffini
- Kitchen cabinets by Schiffini
- Dishwasher by Bosch
- Kitchen plumbing fittings by Schiffini
- Cooktop by General Electrics
- Refrigerator by General Electrics
Lighting, Heating, Home/building automation: Lightolier
- Lighting fixtures by Lightolier
Roof: Firestone Building Products
- Roofing by Firestone Building Products
Walls: Benjamin Moore
- Paints by Benjamin Moore
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Simple. Unique. Affordable. More architecture like this is needed for the masses (or suburbs).
I note that the word “beautiful” would never be used to describe this house.
Sorry for the double comment, it looked like my first comment wasn’t posted for some reason but now it’s there. Not trying to beat a dead horse.
If the owner satisfied by this house – why not… In generally, it is something new in kinds of houses, not so beauty but different.
If I had paid to have this designed and built, then drove home to this image every evening I would cry…. but then again it does have sky lights.
I absolutely love the design and choice of materials. It does take a certain individual to want a house like this, but I guess I am one of those people.
Superbe architecture!
Perhaps different copper panels could have been used than the corrugated ones to make exterior more attractive. A combination of shiny raw copper panels, pre-patinated green copper panels and more glazing would enhance the facade. A mix of copper and natural stone outside and inside would give it more character as well.