113 springy banks road full#

The two houses, simple and complex and the link create an upbeat, energetic collective compound, a cultural and architectural collection. There are many 'metaphysical' small slopes, hills, nooks and crannies made of Japanese rammed earth country floor to stimulate the feet, a kind of kaleidoscopic laboratory or incubator for living well and longer. with four bedrooms, two and a half baths, studio/study room (or fifth bedroom), a traditional living room with fireplace and a large, sunken 'Italian' country kitchen, a raised dining and work platform - surrounded by 4 Arakawa/Gin's 'landing sites' large, high and open cubic volumes. In total, the two houses and the 'in-between' link form an architectural collage containing 3,400 sq.

113 springy banks road full#

The 'front' house has a living room with fireplace, two bedrooms, one and one-half baths, full basement, oil heating and air conditioning, and floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and windows.

Under Contract 4 BD 2 BA Single Family Home.

house - designed by Harvard architect Carl Koch - inspired by the Bauhaus as a new kind of simple, economical, modern summer cottage. 113 Springy Banks Road, Northwest Woods, East Hampton, NY 11937. modernist, cubist design - is connected by a new link to the original and also architecturally significant 1960's 'front' 900 sq. The new 'back' house is an addition, a landscape of shifting forms punctuated by 52 colors. It is an 'architectural body' studio-house - a stimulating environment for healthy living.There are two connected houses: The 'back' Bioscleave House and the 'front' original A-frame house. All the new owner has to do is hire a bulldozer.Bioscleave House (Life-Span Extending Villa) is a unique design by famous, international, avant-garde artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa - proteges of the surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp - who have shown and published their work worldwide producing many radical books and iconoclastic exhibitions including The Guggenheim Museum.Here is a singular, rare masterwork - the only house they designed and built to test 50 years of research through this experimental, provocative laboratory.

Now that the asking price is $975,000 it’s at land value. The original house is a 1960s A-frame designed by Carl Koch, as well as the addition by Gins and Arakawa. There are two connected houses on the 1.1 acre property, with 4 bedrooms, 2 full and one half bath. 113 Springy Banks Road East Hampton, NY 11937. Here it is May 2021 and it’s still standing. 113 Springy Banks Road, East Hampton, NY Details Add to Favorites Request More Info. According to the Architects Newspaper, “If none of the rescue attempts prevail by January 2019, the house will be sold to a local developer who would likely demolish it and rebuild an entirely new structure.” Promises, promises. The property was put back on the market in 2018 asking $2.5 million the owners (an LLC and the couple’s foundation) were hoping someone would buy it, move the house (possibly to a museum site), and save it from demolition. We say: it may extend the owner’s lifespan, but they’re not gonna be good years.Īnd what’s with the name? In their book Architectural Body, Arakawa and Gins wrote, “Architecture’s holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere, but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave.” (Note: the couple have since died.) They thought that continually stimulating the senses through architectural surprise would stimulate the immune system. View photos on as well as details, price history, local schools and mortgage information. The Bioscleave House–known as the Lifespan Extending Villa–was designed by artist couple Madeline Gins and Arakawa to cheat death itself. 113 Springy Banks Road, East Hampton, NY 11937 is a home for sale listed for 975,000. This inventive, experimental house was built in 2008 and cost more than $2 million to build.