Slow House

Slow House is a weekend home in North Haven on Long Island. There is no facade here, just an entrance door. The house is merely a passage, doors that lead to a window; a physical entry to a visual departure. Behind the door, a passage unfolds in plan and section, shaped like the curve of a knife's edge and advancing toward a view of the ocean at its expanded end. At the end of the 100-foot-long passage, there are two stacks resembling antennas on either side of a large window. The chimney is on the right. Atop the left one sits an industrial camera that captures the view of the water and supplies the image to a monitor placed in front of the window. The electronic view can be controlled. The camera can pan and zoom the image via a remote control. If the image is being recorded, it can be delayed: a day replayed at night, nice weather during bad. Nature is transformed into a slow form of entertainment. The composed view from the living room towards the horizon, represented in two ways, will remain unrecordable. The Slow House has remained permanently unfinished.