Studio: Project 2, Bruce Price's William Kent Cottage

Final boards for my research on shingle style darling/white male architect, Bruce Price, and his William Kent Cottage in Tuxedo Park, NY (click to expand).









We paid particular attention to the roof forms in modeling and drawing our Shingle Style houses. The works of this style have distinctly more complex roofs than those of the Stick Style or other American vernacular architecture, wherein the roof simply caps an extruded floor plan. This small cottage, while it doesn't quite compare to the hyper-elaborate roofscape of something like Kragsyde, does exhibit a peculiar condition in which the hips on the central roof come together at a double-curve on all four sides (not shown in the Revit-made axo). The curved roof is sandwiched between two other roof volumes: a 90 degree gable that covers the front salon and porch, and an asymmetrical gable, which conceals a backdoor entrance.