May 2008 Archives

September 13, 1914 - March 29, 2008

To read more about Ralph Rapson and his legacy visit Rapson Architects.

In a spurt of renewed energy regarding the Villa Straylight, we drafted up a site plan with the house on it approximately to scale. The result was totally shocking because I think we had been picturing the house bigger and the lot smaller. We checked the math on our rendering and the scale on the lot map over and over and it's right, we were wrong. I think the next time we go up there we need to bring some long twine and some stakes to help us visualize the size of the building on the lot.

The green part is the house, the yellow line is a possible driveway, the blue square is a stone patio.

We read an article about this house in upstate New York in Elle Décor the other day and found all of it very inspiring.