Amagansett House Loosely Mimics Life-Saving Station

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Award-winning firm Bates Masi + Architects, known for edgy yet warm spaces, have designed a tribute to the Life-Saving Station across the street from the Amagansett landmark. The 2,300-square-foot beach house, a custom project for a West Coast couple, bears several similarities to the iconic building including cedar shingles and a second story that’s all about views.

Taking into consideration that the station is perched 30 feet above sea level – the U.S. Coast Guard patrolled the coastline there from 1902 to 1946 searching for shipwrecks – the architects “placed common areas on the second floor so the homeowners could spend much of their time as the watchmen did—immersed in the seascape,” according to architecturalrecord.com. The firm also cantilevered the structure’s upper story “beyond the wider volume beneath it, and finished its west and south elevations entirely in glass.”

To allow outdoor living to residents while on the second floor, the team turned the rooftop of the larger first floor into a deck and garden. After extensive restoration, the station was opened this year as a museum.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_single_image image=”20456″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_single_image image=”20457″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_column_text]Photos via Architectural Record[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]