Guesthouse @ Ancram, upstate New York.03. Sep2012
"The House is the 2nd building on a beautiful large estate in upstate New York, Columbia County. The building is designed as a private guesthouse and is an addition to the already existing main house, which was built three years before and designed by the same team. The plan contains a bedroom, a living/work room, an entry hall, a gallery for art as well as a bathroom, a kitchenette, a walk-in closet and a garage in the basement." - HHF Architects
On display in the gallery are currently four Zodiac Heads by Ai Weiwei, who also contributed to the design of the house too.
Photos by Iwan Baan.
Plans by HHF Architects.
The guesthouse overlooking the valley below.---
Rendered model of the guesthouse.---
Entrance of the guesthouse.---
Detail of the corrugated exterior wall.---
View from the gusethouse of the initial house, main residence of the clients, also creation of the HHF Architects three years ago.---
View of the living room from the outside.---
Entrance hall lead towards the four Zodiac Heads by Ai Weiwei.---
The bedroom wing.---
The living room wing.---
View of the guesthouse structure during construction.---
First floor plan.---
Ground floor plan.---
HHF Architects are Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler.HHF architects was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler. Since then HHF have realized projects in Switzerland, Germany, China, Mexico, France and the USA. The scope of work ranges broadly and includes: large scale construction, e.g., fashion center Labels Berlin 2; interior design, e.g., the Confiserie Bachmann in Basel; master planning, e.g., the public space and mobility strategy for the Praille Acacias Vernets, Geneva; public structures, e.g., Ruta del Peregrino Lookout Point of a pilgrimage route in Mexico; or the Baby Dragon pavilion in the Jinhua Architecture Park, China.
From the beginning HHF has aimed for collaborations with other architects, artists and specialists in order to widen the view on a project and enrich the quality of a specific proposal.
In addition to building, teaching is an important activity of the office. Since 2009 Simon Hartmann has been Professor at the HTA in Fribourg, Switzerland. Previously he served as a teaching assistant and head of teaching at the ETH Studio Basel, with Professors Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener and Marcel Meili. Simon Frommenwiler was a teaching assistant with Professor Harry Gugger at the ETH in Lausanne and a guest professor at the HTA in Fribourg. HHF architects also guest lectured at the UIA in Mexico City, at MIT in Boston and the University of Innsbruck and the firm's architects have participated as jury members at numerous universities.
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