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Shelter Island House by Stamberg Aferiat + Associates
by
Ricky
(IC: blogger)
Let the line that divides art from architecture be transparent. This project gave us an opportunity to bring our influences, inspirations, aspirations and years of architectural design to bear in one place with only ourselves and our budget to define the boundaries.
Cubists looked beyond the mechanical view of how the eye sees and employed the brain's ability to remember and anticipate, allowing one to take in a seemingly disjointed array of phenomena but still have the whole make sense. The increasing plasticity of lightweight building materials allows us some of the Cubists' slight-of-hand to simultaneously evoke the immediacies of built form as well as architectural dream states – the hovering roof, translucencies between inside and outside, and walls that are not walls.
Cubists looked beyond the mechanical view of how the eye sees and employed the brain's ability to remember and anticipate, allowing one to take in a seemingly disjointed array of phenomena but still have the whole make sense. The increasing plasticity of lightweight building materials allows us some of the Cubists' slight-of-hand to simultaneously evoke the immediacies of built form as well as architectural dream states – the hovering roof, translucencies between inside and outside, and walls that are not walls.
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Published March 9th, 2013 7:16 PM
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Cindy Barnes on Mar 05, 2014This house would scare my husband, but I love it.
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