The Sagaponac House is a 4,500 square foot house located in an east Long Island community, Wainscott.
Designed in 2007 by Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, partners of Tsao & McKown Architects, New York, the residence is a two-volume modern and minimalist house. It consists only of simple lines and shapes but firmly rooting itself to the landscape and creating privacy by shaping the terrain.
The upper level above the land line consists of a white simple two-story cube, while the lower volume is built right into the landscape. The private areas with amazing outdoor swimming pool are located the way nobody could see them from the street. This first level is connected to a superb outside swimming pool and offers a complete privacy for partying with a few friends. ” The house functions (physically and psychically) on multiple levels – as much an intimate retreat for two (or one) as an accommodating host to an extended family (or numerous guests) – thus promoting multiple, overlapping narratives. Above: the public face, contained, controlled, consistent. Below: the private sphere: free-wheeling and spontaneous. We chose to embrace, rather than deny, this inherent ambivalence – a duality that is universal to the human condition.”
