Hudson House, Columbia County Residence, New York Real Estate, Luxury NY Home
Open House Hudson, Columbia County
Contemporary New York Residence, USA – design by LEVENBETTS
Jan 26, 2019
Open House Hudson, New York
Design: LEVENBETTS
Location: Hudson, Columbia County, New York, United States
Open House Hudson, Columbia County
Open House is a campsite. The House proposes an alternate way of living in domestic space in relation to site, externalities, nature and the sun by prioritizing the shape of space, the qualities of light and material and the visual and formal connection of interior space.

The house is sited on a 2 acre clearing amongst a series of outdoor domestic functions: a well and pump, a tent platform, a stone patio for dining, a fire pit, a trailer, a garage shed, 10 Ash trees, 5 Locust trees, two streams and a lot of meadow grass. The house is organized based on connection to these elements outside of the house over the tailoring of space to a specific program inside the house. As part of this rural orbit, the house is understood as another element in the larger campsite where domestic functions are provided both inside and outside and nature is encouraged to flow through.
Although the house is small by American standards, 1500 square feet including outdoor decks, because of the shapes of the spaces, the degrees of openness that the spaces enable, and the direct opening out to the surrounding campsite, its overall space is experienced as part of the two ...