The ?lanes? in Amagansett, New York, are a set of walkable streets perpendicular to Main street, dotted with a diverse range of houses and styles, that is walking distance to the ocean. One of our challenges was to create a home that would accommodate the owners wish for a maintenance-free house with longevity, inside and outside. This led to building shapes and materials that would be hardy, devoid of delicate detailing, and requiring no re-finishing over time. All exterior materials, from the charred cypress to raw concrete walls, to the zinc roof, are chosen for their ability to weather and patina naturally over time. Windows and doors are pushed tight up to the forward plane of the clapboards to keep a tight weather seal.

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Architects: MB Architecture
Location: Amagansett, United States

Lead Architects: Maziar Behrooz, Bruce Engel, assistants: Haotian Xu, Brandon Ma

Area: 7300.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Matthew Carbone

Landscape Architect: Shepard Butler, Brian Bare at SBLA

Contractor: Richard Swanson Contracting

Lighting Design: Caitlin Faron of Shine

Landscape Installation: Landscape Details

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