Stamberg Aferiat + Associates — Shelter Island House
Description
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.
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.