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The book explores the inspirational and completely unique Cocoon House, a feat of sustainable design.
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Nina Edwards Anker is the founder of nea studio and is also an award- winning architect, interior designer and writer whose interests revolve around sustainable design. She has designed solar lighting and furniture for exhibitions at the 3D print show and ICFF in Manhattan, Copenhagen, Cologne, Miami and Milan Furniture Fairs and her ‘Landscape Sofa’ won the Good Design Award at the Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture and Design in 2015. In addition, her 3D printed ‘Latitude Lights’ won the A’Design Award in 2017, and her ‘Beanie Sofa’ the Best Product Award in 2019 at
The Architect’s Newspaper. In 2016 she was awarded her doctorate in architecture from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and has held teaching positions in architecture at Pratt, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, New York University Gallatin and Sotheby’s Institute. Edwards Anker is also a Design Director at Terreform ONE and a founding member of New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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The book explores the inspirational and completely unique Cocoon House, a feat of sustainable design.
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THE COCOON HOUSE HIDING IN THE HAMPTONS
Nea Studio completes the Cocoon House, a gorgeous home in the Hamptons, and an experimental residence stemming from a graduation thesis
Introverted or open? Solid or ethereal? Cocoon House, designed by Nina Edwards Anker — Nea Studio in Long Island is a bit of both. Unfolding in an L-shaped volume, the property rests among a lush green garden, expressing a unique duality. Along the northern and western façades, the home is wedged to envelop inhabitants and ward off peering glances. Meanwhile, where interiors face the garden, the enclosure fades into sweeping glass panels.
Behind the design is a project developed by Nina Edwards Anker, who crafted the summer home for her family based on a thesis project exploring solar design at the School of Architecture and Design in Oslo.
Completing her vision, Rea Studio constructed the space with an emotional sensibility matched by a careful selection of materials and technologies. Clad in cedar shingles, the curved walls seal the home shut, winking at the historic architecture in this quiet and elegant area of New York.
The wood is more than an aesthetic embellishment, but an excellent tool providing thermal isolation. Added to this are the photovoltaic panels on the roof, incorporating “passive” and eco-friendly solutions like sliding doors supporting natural ventilation and heat-absorbing glass, which come together to obtain LEED certification.
Where the cocoon retreats, the house concedes a bit of enchanting lyricism, which emerges through light and color. Along the narrow corridor uniting the two extremities of the home — reserved respectively for the common and private areas — a string of skylights fills spaces with natural light, changing color according to the shading of glass.
Colors range from vibrant yellow (bringing energy into convivial spaces) to vermilion red (a synonym of intimacy and warmth for the bedroom), along with a soothing and relaxing blue following Goethe’s color theory — already explored in the 19th century by J.M. William Turner to paint natural light effects on water.
Here, a strip of water wraps around the property. In the garden, a simple pool is carved, following the home’s façade while trapping and reverberating light through a kaleidoscope of poetic reflections and abstract geometries. Protective when needed, the home is a soft and mutating microcosm holding a rainbow its core.
