Pocantico House sites three houses, a main house and two guest houses in relation to each other nad the landscape in which they reside. In three different proposals, the houses each occcupy their own territory with programmatic adjacency and visual privacy.
The original house on the property relates to the landscape with a dominant classical axial view. The new hosues develop three more complex conditions of viewing: flat, deep, and long in a more modest and perceptive relationship to landscape. These views are unfolded diagonally and scenographically
The relationship between public entertaining and private domestic house relationships became critical in organizing the house. Sequences of entry too each are seperated and choreographed according to their relationship to both program and view.
