REX recently unveiled the final design for the Necklace Residence, a yet-to-be-built, luxurious family dream home of its own kind. Overlooking the Long Island Sound, the intricately designed 43,500-square-foot project is an ensemble of five private family homes created for a husband and wife, their four children, and each of their children's future families. It was designed so that each home can be experienced autonomously while being part of a larger domestic network, like a necklace, REX describes.
The Necklace Residence's layout also allows the family to experience different views of the surrounding landscape, from a dense forest on one side to the ocean on the other.
Clad in highly reflective glass to blend into its natural landscape, the Necklace Residence also encompasses two shared pavilions: the Event Pavilion and the Entertainment Pavilion. The second and third tier beneath the main level have a garage, gym, home theater, indoor swimming pool, staff area, spa, and wine cellar.
Each of the five homes were designed with its own living typology...
Each of the five homes were designed with its own living typology and named after archetypal American houses: the “U” House, Checkerboard House, Stripe House, Barcode House, and Dice House. If all four children have their own families in the future and choose to live permanently at the Necklace Residence, they'll be provided with different options that best accommodate their lifestyles.
Underneath the project's elevated components is a garden surrounded by a ring of clear glass with a circular walkway behind it, which visually connects all the homes. The circular walkway is lined by a cherrywood wall that morphs into sculptural ribbon-like staircases within the two pavilions.
In the Event Pavilion, the wooden wall morphs into a ceremonial staircase, which connects the seven upper volumes to below-grade spaces. In the Entertainment Pavilion, the wall morphs into a bar, library, and study, and also forms a staircase that descends to the interior mud room below, which leads to the forest.
Project credits
CLIENT: Confidential
AREA: 43,500 sf
COST: Confidential
ARCHITECT: REX
KEY PERSONNEL: Tim Burwell, Alberto Cumerlato, Maur Dessauvage, Shereen Doummar, Mahasti Fakourbayat, Mette Fast, Alysen Hiller Fiore (PL), Tyler Hopf, Gabriel Jewell-Vitale, Min Kim, Elizabeth Nichols, Kelsey Olafson, Joshua Ramus, Raul Rodriguez (PL), Emma Silverblatt, Aude Soffer, Minyoung Song, Elina Spruza Chizmar (PL), Michele Tonizzo, Cristina Webb, Vaidotas Vaiciulis, Michael Volk, Danny Wei
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: AVGA
CONSULTANTS: ACS, ASW, CSI, Front, Kean Development, Knippers Helbig, SMD, Tillotson Design
8 Comments
to be simple , a small village
beautiful
Where’s the plan?
I can't wait for all those siblings to start cutting each other's throats for the inheritance.
love all the white people in the renderings.... also wonder if they ran out of mirror budget for soffits
What home, all I see are trees.
I've been seeing versions of this in JPR lectures for like 6 years, and I still don't give a fuck about some rich people's houses.
All architecture is rich peoples houses...with a sprinkle of a few museums and libraries here and there...
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