Architecture firm Feuerstein Quagliara has integrated a series of covered outdoor spaces into this country home, which is designed to provide "visual and physical connections to the landscape from every room".

The Hass House is located in Livingston Manor, a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York. Situated on a grassy knoll, the home overlooks 45 acres (18 hectares) of farmland.
Feuerstein Quagliara ? a Brooklyn firm led by Andrew Feuerstein and Bret Quagliara ? designed the house as a "playful reconfiguration of the traditional American side-gabled house".

The design began as a linear bar stretching from east to west. The bar was then broken into six, equally sized blocks ? each accommodating a different programmatic function. Certain blocks were then shifted to create a series of gardens and terraces. The home is topped with a continuous gabled roof, which covers both the interior rooms and outdoor spaces.

"In this way, each programme type is connected to an outdoor space made accessible through floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors, providing both visual and physical connections to the landscape from every room," said the firm.
Exterior walls are clad in rough-cut pine that was stained black. This dark cladding, combined with the building's simple form, create "a graphic silhouette against the landscape", it added.

Encompassing 3,024 square feet (281 square metres), the dwelling has a clear, fluid layout. One si...