Five years after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the coastline of New York City, the Surfboard House was completed. The owners had purchased a lot in Breezy Point, a beachfront community with a cooperative structure in Queens. The waterfront lot was the site of a house that had been washed away by the hurricane. Houses in Breezy Point are set close together and linked by pedestrian paths; cars are confined to lots at the periphery. One of the primary design strategies was stepping the south-facing facade to allow windows to wrap corners. That created diagonal sightlines up and down the beach, framing vistas and visually expanding the interior spaces. Angled roof profiles and ceiling finishes also direct the eye upward and outward. (Barker Freeman Design Office)