The Kaselle Residence
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The Kaselle Residence was conceived as a private residence for horses
and their owner, under one roof. The client, an artist with three special
horses, made clear from the outset that the design of the house was
to be as much about the needs of the horses as the needs of the owner.
The horses are family. The design was intended to mirror the natural
harmony of it's surroundings while providing a sustainable environment
for it's inhabitants.
This home in New York's Catskill Mountains occupies a beautiful site,
abutting a large pond. Between the house and the surrounding woods,
is an outdoor courtyard for the horses, on the north side, with the
south elevation looking out over the pond, fed by a little creek with
a small intervening koi pool, and a magnificent view beyond. Siting
of the house called for excavating a shelf and then reusing the dirt
to sculpt great earth berms against the shell. The berming enables the
design to nestle into the landscape and create a fluid line connecting
landforms and shell openings. The berms against the building work with
additional up-slope berms to enclose the intimate courtyard in the tradition
of European farmhouses, and to divert water flow as it sheets down toward
the house from higher terrain to the northeast.
The footprint of the structure is over 7,000 square feet, with about
another 1,000 square feet on upper floors. The residential area includes
a large master suite at the west end, a grand living / dining space,
library, art studio, kitchen, workshop and garage spaces, with a second
floor guest room, balcony overlooking the living room, office, and storage
spaces. The horse arena includes three horse stalls and work areas,
as well as a feed and tack room. The hayloft is above the feed room
and horse stalls, where hay can be dropped to the stalls below. Hay
can be brought into the loft by driving up the berm behind the retaining
wall at the large shell opening at the main entry. The open arena provides
an exercise / play area, 13 meters in diameter, the size of a standard
circus ring.
These three dimensional computer renderings were based upon the architect's
AutoCAD drawings. Computer renderings courtesy of Engineering Enterprises,
International. For additional information, contact: leandro@e-e-i-com
The above picture shows the shell stresses obtained from the Finite
Element Analysis performed on a three dimensional computer model of
the structure. The model accounted for openings and shell thickness
variations. The shell surface was divided into over a thousand small
elements to obtain axial and bending stresses due to the imposed loads.
The loads applied per The International Building Code included self
weight, snow, soil pressure, wind and seismic. The analysis was done
by Leandro Buriek, P.E., of Engineering Enterprises International. Leandro
can be contacted at leandro@e-e-i.com.
This is a computer generated three dimensional model of
the balloon fabrication diagram. The model illustrates the layout of
the fabric gore patterns and includes the tubes for connection of the
balloon to the airlock entry and the inflation system. Diagram courtesy
of Aerostar International, Inc. For further information see:
www.aerostar.com
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