Byggeskikk House
Wawarsing, NY
This weekend house in the Catskills for a transplanted Norwegian video producer and photographer embraces the contradictions of Norway’s “byggeskikk” vernacular building tradition, straddling the boundary between high and low culture. The owner's weekday world of Manhattan contemporary art and design collides with weekend upstate bro-hemian tomfoolery involving guns and motorcycles.
The house offers different massing from different approaches and responds to the landscape in a similarly varied fashion. A quick stroll around the house reveals a doppelganger personality, as up and down shifts in the roofline transition one residential typology to the next at each corner. Decks provide staging for outdoor photo shoots, while apertures frame views of the surrounding hills or for watching laps on the motocross track.
The house offers different massing from different approaches and responds to the landscape in a similarly varied fashion. A quick stroll around the house reveals a doppelganger personality, as up and down shifts in the roofline transition one residential typology to the next at each corner. Decks provide staging for outdoor photo shoots, while apertures frame views of the surrounding hills or for watching laps on the motocross track.
