New York architect Jerome Engelking’s Wuehrer House sits in a forested site within the Hamptons’ countryside.New York architect Jerome Engelking’s Wuehrer House sits in a forested site within the Hamptons’ countryside.Wuehrer House is nestled in a quiet and secluded site within Stony Hill Forest in New York’s Hamptons, surrounded by white oaks and the occasional pitch pine. It is the work of Paris-born and New York-based architect Jerome Engelking.
The house is built around a unique and repetitive model, though a simple and discreet geometrical structure. A set of imposing floor-to-ceiling glass walls are lined along three of the building’s facades, setting no boundaries with the surrounding nature and conceiving natural light as a defining element. ‘I have always had a fascination for glass and its transparency,’ Engelking says, ‘when you are inside a space you won’t be looking at walls, but directly at the surrounding nature.