Architectures
Old Westbury House
Richard Meier – The Weinstein House, Old Westbury NY Long Island USA, 1969-1971
Year
1969 - 1971
Architect
Richard Meier
Although only an hour’s drive from New York City, this home’s Long Island site is secluded and rural, nestled atop a meadow deep in a wooded property. The land slopes gently across the meadow to a pond on the western edge of the site and through the dense barrier of trees to the public road and beyond. The home is oriented to allow morning sunlight into the bedrooms and to provide pastoral views of the landscape.
Invisible from the street, the house is approached obliquely through a driveway. The design for this house, for a family with six children, included an unusually large number of bedrooms and bathrooms. At the same time, the design called for a clearly defined relationship between public and private space.
The circulation system became the main organizing element in the design. A free-standing steel column, adjacent to a small gatehouse, is a signpost indicating the start of pedestrian movement. From here, the front façade shields most of the house from view, while a glazed cutout around the door allows a view through the house along the axis of the circulation spine.
This backbone finds expression in a ramp that extends through the upper floors of the house. A skylight on the third floor lets in a blade of natural light that bisects the axis of the circulation spine. This motif establishes a theme of light infiltration from various directions.
Source: www.richardmeier.com
Cover photo by: Ezra Stoller/ESTO
The circulation system became the main organizing element in the design. A free-standing steel column, adjacent to a small gatehouse, is a signpost indicating the start of pedestrian movement. From here, the front façade shields most of the house from view, while a glazed cutout around the door allows a view through the house along the axis of the circulation spine.
This backbone finds expression in a ramp that extends through the upper floors of the house. A skylight on the third floor lets in a blade of natural light that bisects the axis of the circulation spine. This motif establishes a theme of light infiltration from various directions.
Source: www.richardmeier.com
Cover photo by: Ezra Stoller/ESTO
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