Edifice by Marc Thorpe is a black off-the-grid cabin in Upstate New York
American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment".
Edifice was built in the small village of Fremont, which is a two-hour drive from New York City. The town is tucked into the scenic Catskill Mountains ? a popular getaway for urban dwellers.
Marc Thorpe, who runs an eponymous Manhattan studio, designed the cabin to serve as a model for a proposed, 30-acre (12-hectare) nature retreat. Laced with walking trails, the development would encompass a mix of one- and two-bedroom cabins.
For the prototype, the designer created a one-bedroom version, which totals 500 square feet (46 square metres). The discreet cabin is nestled into a lush, wooded site. "The building sits quietly among the trees, in perfect balance with its environment," Thorpe said in a statement.
Thorpe took cues from 19th-century writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who were important figures in the transcendentalist philosophical movement, which championed individualism and an appreciation for nature. Thorpe's aim was to create a self-sustaining building that was an "exercise in reduction".
"The cabin stands as an example of introverted architecture or neo-transcendentalism," Thorpe said. "This is exhibited through its physical isolation, essentialist programming and self-sustaining infrastructure."
Rectangular in plan, the dwelling is a...
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