Phelps Residence
Pittsford, New York

New 4-bedroom residence including: home offices, exercise room, garage barns, and extensive gardens.
4,600 sq. ft.
completed 1994

© 1994 Reynolds Design Associates, used by permission

Site
From a high cornfield looking west over rolling cornfields to the City of Rochester, New York, the house presents a configuration of smaller roofs cascading toward the rural roadway below. The house is carefully oriented toward the sun's progress, and accommodates a classical Japanese garden and pond at the rear of the house.

Building
By adapting traditional Japanese farmhouse language and forms, the house is a variation on local farm structures. The plan of the house provides large and dramatic 'public' space for entertaining, and abundant indoor and outdoor private, contemplative space for working, sleeping and relaxing.

Materials
Recycled fir timbers and interior trim, recycled redwood exterior trim, synthetic stucco, cherry and tile flooring, hemlock barn and fencing, synthetic stone chimney.