Architecture studio Reddymade has collaborated with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to design a corrugated metal extension with hexagonal ends for a weekend home in Salt Point, New York.
The local studio drew on the hexagonal plan of the original 1980s home to create the minimal, linear form of Salt Point Residence, with 185 square metres providing space for two new en-suite bedrooms around a central living room.
Reddymade and Ai Weiwei gave the extension a hexagonal end section to reference the shape of the original building's plan
"The existing residence is composed of a cluster of hexagonal pavilions. For the new structure, we transposed this hexagonal plan to shape the section for the addition," explained Reddymade.
"The extension was designed to be strikingly simple and minimal, which is reflected not only in its graphic language, but also in its materiality." From a distance, the extension looks like an industrial barn
A glass corridor leads from the original home to the centre of the extension, where two angled wings meet in a simple living room, conceived as the form's central "hinge".
The long, thin wings then both extend past bathroom blocks towards glazed ends, which open onto private porches to give each of the new bedrooms a close connection with the surrounding landscape.
Corrugated metal clads the extension's two wings
At the extension's southern end, this porch has been given a mirrored wall fitted with an outdoor shower,...