Bunshaft Residence
The Bunshaft Residence, sometimes called the Travertine House was a modernist home designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife on a 2.4-acre lot on the shore of Georgica Pond in East Hampton, New York. It was designed in 1962 and completed in 1963. It was one of the few residences designed by Bunshaft.
Design
The house was contained within a rectangular box, 100 feet long by 26 feet wide, with its long dimension tangent to the lagoon's shoreline to the south and raised on a broad six-foot berm above the floodplain. The exterior walls were poured-in-place concrete clad with travertine and the exposed roof structure was made up of pre-stressed concrete beams with a "double T" shape, exposed on either edge with the openings filled with plate glass clerestory windows. The ends of the house were shaded by a 4-foot extension of the roof and side walls with a paved strip extending the stone flooring to the edge of the walls.The main living spaces had floor-to-ceiling plate glass openings. Interior walls were white-painted plaster and the floors were travertine over a concrete slab foundation. The entry door, one of only two openings in the solid north wall, opened directly into a small entry hall between the central living room and the master bedroom. Opposite the open living area was a smaller guest bedroom and a study, separated from the living space by a U-shaped kitchen and the guest bath.