Sag Harbor Guest House
Sag Harbor, Long Island

The design of a guest house required a study of the existing lot, its views, orientations and contours.  A large triangular site contained a pool well above the grade of the rear lawn. While perched at the high corner, the house still could not command the site, nor visually reach to the large extents of the property.
The scheme for the pool area and garden extended the plane of the wood deck to create a more generous scale and increase the sense of floating atop a hill. Sail like canopies cover the lounge area and recall the bay just across the street. The grand wooden stair creates an easy connection between lawn and pool; its scale relates to the scale of the larger property, thus increasing a sense of openness and calm.