Located in Ulster County, at the edge of the Catskill Forest Preserve in New York State's Hudson River Valley, the house is the brainchild of Michael McDonough, award-winning architect and industrial designer, who consults worldwide on corporate futurism, personal environments, and product development. McDonough has won numerous awards, including citations from the American Institute of Architects and the Industrial Design Society of America. He and his house are featured currently in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Electronic House, New York Observer, and Wired magazine.

"There are, in fact, a few exuberant American designers, among them, Michael McDonough ... "

— Tom Wolfe in "Art Dogs" 1999

Features
The building's sculptural shape features "view-catching" and "light-catching" rooms, which are integrated into the building's stone stone-clad passive solar shell. Designed in a dramatic new style, it uses response to nature as the primary generator of architectural form. Emphasizing emerging life-styles, it is configured for e-commuting from a unified work-live space.

Installing the Panels

Left: Installing Winter Panel SIP walls at second floor View Catcher cantilevered floor assembly. Right: Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) structural header in place, Winter Panel SIP is crane lifted into place and set by hand. Note that SIP has been pre-cut to fit around LVL header. Photos by Corinne Trang.

For more information about this exciting project, please visit Michael McDonough's Web site. For additional panel installation photos, please click here.

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