![Stone Houses / LSS - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/b574/28ba/0d39/5000/0e7e/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414411112)
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Architects: Leroy Street Studio
- Area: 650 m²
- Year: 2005
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Photographs:Charles Mayer & Paul Warchol
Text description provided by the architects. For a very flat 12 acre site dotted with specimen trees, a mother and daughter requested low-maintenance weekend residence for themselves and extended family made of Westchester granite.
![Stone Houses / LSS - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/b556/28ba/0d39/5000/0e79/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414411152)
The property was planned as two separate houses linked with a network of dry-stack stone walls that create a solid and private face at the southern-oriented arrival side of the buildings. The walls unify exterior and interior spaces and knit the buildings together resulting in a series of internal and external courtyard spaces. Floating roofs define living spaces and great expanses of glazing open toward views of the agricultural reserve to the north.
![Stone Houses / LSS - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/b585/28ba/0d39/5000/0e81/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414411137)
The first house has a slot of water that cuts through the courtyard wall to mark the entry which is accessed through an oversized cabinet that pierces the forecourt curtain wall. A long gallery runs east-west along one of the walls and links the public and private wings. A glass bridge cuts across the gallery linking two ends of an elevated guest wing.
![Stone Houses / LSS - Table, Chair, Windows, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/b50b/28ba/0d39/5000/0e6c/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414411194)
The second house is entered at its narrowest point, through a glazed hall overlooking a raised garden court. A series of floating roofs connects the entry to the interior and exterior public spaces- all nestled against the stone walls. The private wing is defined in contrast, as a taut box of oak glu-lam portal frames wrapped in a continuous skin of louvers.
![Stone Houses / LSS - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/b4de/28ba/0d39/5000/0e64/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414411214)