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00:00in our office we believe in the sort of beauty and craft of architecture and

00:16making the kind of love of making and materials and innovation in that space

00:22our core mission is to make beautiful architecture that aligns with the people

00:27who we designed for you know we try to be really intelligent about how we approach

00:31projects but really care about beauty and form as well one of the most important

00:36parts of our practice is a belief in partnering with our clients and working

00:43with clients as collaborators every project we do has a clear connection to

00:51the people who are going to use it as a clear connection to its context physical

00:56context whether it's in the city or within the landscape

01:02my name is Kim Yao I'm an architect I'm a principal at architecture research

01:07office I'm Stephen Cassell I'm principal at architecture research office we have a

01:11practice that is based in Brooklyn and we do work around the country so we're in

01:18Bucks County in what we call the Bucks County house sitting in the living room

01:23and it is a house for an amazing couple and who are collectors so it's a house

01:31that is a both about holding and displaying their collection and kind of

01:37celebrating their lives they love to entertain they love to cook and bake the

01:44clients have lived on this land for many years and so they knew they know it very

01:49well they had sort of favorite views and and even favorite trees so we you know we

01:54tried to take that into account as we were designing it's about connecting to the

02:00landscape it's about facilitating their day-to-day life and supporting it and

02:05fun and kind of hopefully inspiring ways and and it's about displaying their art and

02:13collection and kind of giving them the space to do that as they really live here

02:17certain types of collections that exist in different spaces of the house and the

02:21shelving or the lighting you know detailed in those moments around that

02:26specific collection so one of the main collections is a collection of antique

02:29weather veins really early on we decided to think of the house as a gallery and so

02:35we've created sort of a main gallery that organizes the house we built a large

02:41scale model and did little models of all the weather veins we photographed

02:47every piece they had cut it out at the right scale pinned it with little little

02:53pins to the walls so we did studies of how work could be displayed but we let

02:57them and we gave them that model so that they could also play with the

03:02organization of the work the weather veins are supported on these custom steel

03:07attachments that just allow them to float in air in that allowed for the

03:13collection to be celebrated and integrated in the design of the house in a way

03:19where the detailing is secondary to the actual object which was important to us

03:25that galleries are the organizing principle for the interior of the house

03:29you know the house has 16 foot high ceilings a large clear story that runs all

03:36the way through it to bring light onto the collections it also is a house that is

03:40that celebrates its context through some of the material choices so we used a

03:46local quartzite stone which is also a stone you see in many historic Pennsylvania

03:52farmhouses in the area and it celebrates its location through connectivity to the

03:58landscape both views looking out into the landscape in the immediate vicinity and

04:03also windows that bring light into the space one of the main materials in the

04:08houses locally quarried stone a quartzite and we made that decision to clad the walls of

04:16the house in that stone really for a couple of reasons one it referred back to the

04:211700 stone house that they lived in before the other is is we you know we looked at

04:27many different materials and actually many different stones we were really excited to

04:30find something that came from the area that has the coloration that ties into the

04:35landscape and then the laying of the stone itself we actually worked with some Amish

04:40craftspeople who did the don't work on the house each project and in fact really you

04:49can say this even more specifically I think about residences each home is such an

04:55opportunity to recognize place and people in a very personal and intimate way that it

05:05isn't like any other house in our portfolio because it's this house in this place for this couple

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