6.9.2009
Goodman House in Pine Plains, NY
Con su escala monumental, la Casa Goodman extiende el legado moderno de las casas a dos aguas, un legado que comenzó con McKim Mead, en la White House reinterpretada por Robert Venturi, y que hoy continúa en la obra de numerosos arquitectos contemporáneos. Un transportable y reconstruido granero holandés contiene esta casa que parece girar exteriormente debido a un corredor que lo atraviesa a lo ancho y que se convierte en un jardín de invierno. El afecto del cliente por las maderas antiguas y su deseo de disponer de un espacio extremadamente luminoso sin divisiones interiores anuló la posibilidad de utilizar entrepisos u otras particiones interiores que suelen estabilizar las estructuras de los graneros. Por lo tanto, la estabilidad estructural lateral se resolvió con una estructura de acero que rodea la casa.
With its monumental scale, the Goodman House extends the Modern legacy of radical gable form houses – a legacy which began with McKim Mead and White’s Low House as reinterpreted by Robert Venturi, and continues today in the work of numerous contemporary architects.
A transported and re-erected Dutch barn frame is contained in this house like a guitar in its case. The house appears to turn outside in due to a passageway traversing the width of the whole interior space. Thermally transformable, the breezeway converts into a winter garden by means of slide up screen doors and roll down glass doors.
The clients’ affection for the antiquated timbers combined with their desire for an excessively lit and predominantly undivided interior did not allow for the reintroduction of the mezzanines and partitions that typically stabilize barn structures from within. Therefore, lateral structural stability has been reintroduced by a steel frame surrounding the barn.
A curtain wall, with irregularly distributed windows, wraps the peripheral steel frame. It is as if nostalgia caused the emergence of a Modernist paradigm of construction more fitting to a commercial building than to a house. The relationship between compartmental and open spaces, small and large windows, refined and rustic structural components creates a rich and variable environment for living, entertainment, and exhibition of folk art.