Architect Visit: A Passive Barn-Style House for the Future, Hudson Valley Edition

Ian Hague wanted a spot to sit back out. When he acquired 75 untouched acres in New York’s Hudson Valley, the NYC fund supervisor envisioned a “hermitage within the forest” tailored to his pursuits: studying, constructing balsa wooden mannequin airplanes, driving a Tesla, and decompressing amid the treetops. He additionally needed to create a state-of-the-art, low-impact retreat and enlisted sustainability specialists BarlisWedlick Architects of NYC and Hudson, New York, for the job.

After encountering a fox on the property throughout his first go to, Hague dubbed his Columbia County unfold Fox Corridor, and in the course of the many months of collaborating with lead architect Alan Barlis and crew, a multi-building compound emerged. On Gardenista, we explored the grounds, which embrace a reconstructed Nineteenth-century barn, pure swimming pool (filtered solely by crops and natural methods), and three-story porch with sauna. At the moment we’re touring the linchpin of the challenge, Hague’s built-from-the-ground-up barn-style home.

Images by Jonny Valiant until famous, courtesy of BarlisWedlick Architects.

The open-plan predominant flooring is designed round floor-to-ceiling home windows equipped by Intus. “The uncovered timbers are harking back to the Nineteenth-century dairy barn we salvaged and positioned on the property,” says BarlisWedlick’s in-house inside designer Elaine Santos. “Ian introduced pictures of whitewashed areas to our design conferences, and so we needed to maintain the general feeling of the home layered however gentle: oak flooring and white partitions.”