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Architects: MB Architecture
- Area: 7300 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Matthew Carbone
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Manufacturers: Bega, Duravit, Subzero/Wolf, Lucifer Lighting, Stone Source, TechLighting, Unilux, VMZINC, Viking, Viking Range, Waterworks, reSAWN TIMBER co.
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Lead Architects: Maziar Behrooz, Bruce Engel, assistants: Haotian Xu, Brandon Ma
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Landscape Architect: SBLA, Shepard Butler, Brian Bare
Text description provided by the architects. The ‘lanes’ in Amagansett, New York, are a set of walkable streets perpendicular to Main street, dotted with a diverse range of houses and styles, that is walking distance to the ocean. One of our challenges was to create a home that would accommodate the owners wish for a maintenance-free house with longevity, inside and outside. This led to building shapes and materials that would be hardy, devoid of delicate detailing, and requiring no re-finishing over time. All exterior materials, from the charred cypress to raw concrete walls, to the zinc roof, are chosen for their ability to weather and patina naturally over time. Windows and doors are pushed tight up to the forward plane of the clapboards to keep a tight weather seal.
