Oblique view oriented to the waterside elevation and poolside beyond
Shinnecock Point
Southampton, New York 2016
Judith DiMaio, consulting architect for Bruce Nagel + Partners Architects
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Casa Cattaneo, corner condition
Casa Cattaneo, Cesare Cattaneo, 1938-39 Cernobbio, Lago di Como, Italy
Digital Model, Scheme I; View: Open waterside elevation and corner condition
Description
Recognized, and often singled out for her ingenuity and expertise when confronting any building type’s design for the vertical surface or exterior, Bruce Nagel, of Bruce Nagel + Partners called upon her to be the consulting architect for the exterior design of a waterside villa in Southampton, NY.
Methodology
DiMaio’s methodology UNFOLDS a building’s surfaces, or skin, to enable her to view all elevations simultaneously. The unfolded volume allows her to explore surface composition and materiality as a whole, where surface and corner conditions are studied in unison.
Plan and axonometric studies are critical to the process to provide side-by-side comparisons between the elevational studies, the two-dimensional realm, and the three-dimensional volumetrics and massing of the design, much like the folding and unfolding of a Rubik’s Cube.
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Site diagram: waterside is to the north; poolside is to the southwest
Unfolded and flattened elevational studies considering waterside and poolside elevations simultaneously
Waterside elevation facing Peconic Bay
Part plan in relation to its elevation
Conor Harrigan Photography
Waterside
Poolside
View from the pool area showing the effect of integrating the elevations and thereby interconnecting four seemingly disparate building volumes
Poolside
Waterside
An influential precedent by Cesare Cattaneo
Conor Harrigan Photography
Aerial view looking north towards Peconic Bay