Location: 44 Engel Road, Chatham, New York
Architect: Dean/Wolf Architects
Price: $3,200,000
Year Built: 2016
Footprint: 3,000 square feet (two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths)
Lot Size: 15.6 acres
From the Agent: “Located on the outskirts of Chatham/Austerlitz, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive upstate from New York City, the bucolic site lies at the convergence of two diversities: a forested hillside and a pond, both overlooking a panoramic vista in the distance. To capture the views, New York–based Dean/Wolf Architects curved the house in plan, allowing the building’s steel structure to sit on concrete foundations along the pond’s edge, an effect which impressed the jury of the 59th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards. Except for a patio that bisects the house, from pond to forest, the forest-side elevation is kept mostly opaque, directing the eye out through the lakeside facade. Gazing on that elevation capitalizes on the site’s over-water views; the interior is partitioned such that each room creates a sight line to the center of the pond and beyond. Landscaping by Reed-Hilderbrand and Jamie Purinton.”
