项目名称： 原野住宅

地点： 东北镇，纽约州，美国

设计团队： Group Projects Architecture

建筑面积： 2800 ft²  

完工时间： 2024年

摄影师： Nicholas Venezia

设计特色：

项目 - 在纽约州北部的一片草地上，黑色人字形建筑体从地面升起，Group Projects Architecture事务所在这里设计了一座住宅，巧妙地处理了建筑干预与自然景观之间的对话。这座2800平方英尺的"原野住宅"展示了如何通过周到的场地定位来提升建筑功能性及居住者对周围环境的体验。

建筑师没有选择将建筑置于地块最高点，而是做出了战略性决定，将住宅安置在草地水平线上，紧依现有山脊底部。这一非常规选择不仅保留了场地上的成熟树木，还创造了天然的防风屏障，同时建立了一个引人入胜的空间叙事，随着访客从到达点下行而逐步展开。

项目最独特的特征是一个大胆的开挖设计：在山脊上切出一道100英尺长的切口，创造出一个由混凝土挡土墙围合的戏剧性庭院，作为广阔草地景观的私密对应空间。这个人工"室外房间"体现了项目对景观整合的精妙处理手法，建筑干预不是削弱而是增强了场地的自然特质。

建筑形态借鉴了乡村谷仓建筑的特点，但通过精确的材料运用将其提升到新的高度。外立面统一采用黑色波纹金属板，从墙面一直延续到屋顶，创造出整体性外观，材料的波纹图案和外露的彩绘椽子尾端为其增添了细微的动感。大面积玻璃开窗穿透这个深色外壳，提供战略性视野，同时为简洁的人字形轮廓增添了层次感。

室内，四个包裹着道格拉斯冷杉木皮的木作体量悬浮于开放平面中，既作为空间组织者也作为服务单元。内部色调克制而丰富，将白色表面与混凝土地面和铜色框架推拉门相结合。公共空间上方轻柔的拱形天花板为室内空间增添了如云般的柔和感，而私密区域较低的天花板则创造出更为亲密的空间氛围——展示了如何通过细微的空间调节来提升居住体验，同时不影响建筑的清晰性。

团队 - Group Projects于2018年在纽约布鲁克林成立，代表着当代建筑实践中一支新兴的力量，通过协作方法论展现了严谨的设计态度。这家建筑事务所虽然从机构时间线来看相对年轻，但充分利用了其创始合伙人在Gensler、SOM和LEVENBETTS等知名事务所积累的丰富经验。

事务所由三位资深建筑师领导：Andrew Feuerstein、Jonathan Man和Bret Quagliara。作为主创建筑师的Feuerstein在LEVENBETTS期间积累了丰富的机构建筑和住宅项目经验，并结合其在科罗拉多大学的环境设计背景和帕森斯设计学院的建筑深造。Man凭借伯克利的教育背景，带来了其在Gensler和SOM的全面经验，而Quagliara则增添了连接建筑与平面设计的跨学科视角。

事务所的设计理念强调项目交付的整体性方法，促进与客户、技术顾问、承包商和制造商之间的深度协作。这种综合方法使事务所能够开发出精确响应项目特定参数的定制建筑解决方案，同时在不同规模和类型的项目中保持高水平的技术执行和美学精炼。

Project Name: House in a Meadow

Location: North East, New York, United States

Design Team: Group Projects Architecture

Floor Area: 2,800 ft² (approx. 260 m²)

Completion Year: 2024

Photographer: Nicholas Venezia

Feature：

Project - Black-clad gabled volumes emerge from a meadow in upstate New York, where Group Projects Architecture has designed a residence that masterfully navigates the dialogue between architectural intervention and natural landscape. The 2,800-square-foot House in a Meadow demonstrates how thoughtful site positioning can enhance both the building's functionality and its inhabitants' experience of the surrounding environment.

Rather than placing the structure at the property's highest point, the architects made the strategic decision to nestle the home at the meadow level along the base of an existing ridge. This unconventional choice not only preserved the site's mature trees but also created a natural windbreak and established a compelling spatial narrative that unfolds as visitors descend from the arrival point.

The project's most distinctive feature is a bold excavation move: a 100-foot-long slice carved into the ridge creates a dramatic concrete-retained courtyard that serves as an intimate counterpoint to the expansive meadow views. This engineered "outdoor room" exemplifies the project's sophisticated approach to landscape integration, where architectural intervention enhances rather than diminishes the site's natural qualities.

The building's form takes cues from vernacular barn architecture but elevates it through precise material execution. The exterior is unified by black corrugated metal that wraps continuously from facades to roof, creating a monolithic appearance that's subtly animated by the material's wave pattern and exposed painted rafter tails. Large glazed openings pierce this dark envelope, offering strategic views while adding depth to the simple gabled profile.

Inside, four Douglas fir-clad millwork blocks float within the open plan, functioning as both spatial organizers and service elements. The interior palette is restrained yet rich, combining white surfaces with concrete floors and bronze-framed sliding doors. A gently vaulted ceiling above the communal spaces adds a cloud-like softness to the interior volume, while lower ceilings in private areas create more intimate zones – demonstrating how subtle spatial modulation can enhance the domestic experience without compromising architectural clarity.

Design Team - Group Projects, established in 2018 in Brooklyn, represents an emerging force in contemporary architectural practice that exemplifies a rigorous approach to design through collaborative methodology. The practice, while relatively young in its institutional timeline, leverages the extensive expertise of its founding partners who bring experience from prestigious firms including Gensler, SOM, and LEVENBETTS.

The firm is led by a triumvirate of accomplished architects: Andrew Feuerstein, Jonathan Man, and Bret Quagliara. Feuerstein, serving as the Lead Architect, brings significant institutional and residential expertise from his tenure at LEVENBETTS, complemented by his environmental design background from the University of Colorado and advanced architectural studies at Parsons. Man contributes his comprehensive experience from Gensler and SOM, backed by his Berkeley education, while Quagliara adds a multidisciplinary perspective that bridges architecture and graphic design.

The practice's design philosophy emphasizes a holistic approach to project delivery, fostering intensive collaboration among clients, technical consultants, contractors, and fabricators. This integrated methodology enables the firm to develop bespoke architectural solutions that respond precisely to project-specific parameters while maintaining high standards of technical execution and aesthetic refinement across various scales and typologies.