There are roughly 600 properties in Fireplace Island Pines—and Manhattan-based structure agency BOND is accountable for 13 of them. The studio’s founders, Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, started visiting the traditionally homosexual summer time retreat a decade in the past as grad college students, renting rooms and becoming a member of share homes so they may sunbathe on the seashore and celebration with pals. Once they launched their observe in 2020, it was a pure vacation spot for his or her renovation and new-build initiatives. “It’s a utopia, it’s a dream,” says Noam. “I don’t know many locations which have such a direct relationship between tradition, gender, ecology, and structure.”
For their very own Fireplace Island Pines abode, a 1965 stilted cabin simply steps from the ocean, Noam and Daniel transformed with their queer neighborhood in thoughts. The higher stage includes the general public areas and the couple’s main bed room, which is outfitted with an inside window that grants glances into the area. Visitor suites might be discovered under and are accessed from the outside. “We designed it for our non-nuclear household,” Noam explains. “What we created is a home that you could see by. But when someone downstairs needs to sneak out in the midst of the night time to go meet someone, it’s extra personal and there’s not the sense of monitoring.”
Let’s take a tour.
Images by Chris Mottalini.
