Shelter Island House - State I
By Stamberg Aferiat Associates
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.
PROJECT
Cubist Sculpture
DESCRIPTION
An 1,100SF Summer
Retreat
MATERIALS
Steel Frame with
Polycarbonate Panels,
Corrugated Metal, Rubber
Roof
SCOPE
Complete Architectural
Services, Interior Design,
Landscape Design,
Construction Administration
Shelter Island House - State II
By Stamberg Aferiat Associates
Practice what you preach: Architecture coupled with color can bring joy while
providing the basic necessities. Building our own house gave us the leeway to
be as bold with our color choices as the work would allow and to push
boundaries that few dare, but our choices were always based in serious color
theory.
Sir Isaac Newton observed the different behavior of color created with pigment
and color created with light. The Impressionists and Fauves experimented with
Newtonian principles to create light effects with pigment. These experiments
have redefined thoughts on how colors relate to one another. Guided by
Newtonian color theory, the intense palette of the house allows richly-colored
reflected light to pass through translucent walls, suffusing spaces with a
delighting glow.
PROJECT
A House Inspired by Mies
and Matisse
DESCRIPTION
An 1,100SF Summer
Retreat
MATERIALS
Steel Frame with
Polycarbonate Panels,
Corrugated Metal,
Rubber Roof
SCOPE
Complete Architectural
Services, Interior Design,
Landscape Design,
Construction Administration