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Neugebauer House
Naples
Built in 1995 by Richard Meier & Partners.
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Located in a prestigious residential community on a one-and-a-half-acre waterfront site, this house spans the full width of its wedge-shaped plot to face southwest across Doubloon Bay, effectively concealing a view of the water from the front. The entrance is across the front lawn. This expanse of grass is uninterrupted except for an orthogonal cluster of royal palms and a low opaque cylinder faced with bent panels. This drum discreetly encloses a two-car garage.The inhabited volume of the house lies under a large steel-frame butterfly roof cantilevered off steel-box stanchions. The inverted roof pitch provided an unexpected way to meet the local design code requiring a pitched roof and at the same time reinforces the house's orientation toward the water.
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