Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wheeler Kearns Architects
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
A broad, introverted, opaque volume of private spaces floats above a fully transparent, extroverted space at grade that extends, below the canopy of the volume above, into the garden. This urban residence is a warm, intimate home for a family of four that can transform into a place of assembly as needed and has an integral connection between interior and exterior experiences.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
Light and air courts, terminating in a series of
reflecting pools, perforate the volume and extend vertically through the house to distribute reflected light, and activate the interior with rain and snow; further reinforcing the blurred boundaries of interior and exterior space.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
A collaborative design process led to architectural and structural innovations that include vertically
post-tensioned concrete thermal mass with forty foot cantilevers; pultruded fiberglass wide-flanges, filled with closed cell spray foam insulation, sheathed in
aerated autoclaved concrete and pigmented cement stucco; thermally broken floor to ceiling
glass curtain wall and sliding door system.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan) |
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| situation plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| basement plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| ground floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| second floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| third floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| east elevation--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| north elevation--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| south elevation--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| west elevation--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| section--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| green diagram--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| fence plan--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 01--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 02--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 03--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 04drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 05--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
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| watercolor 06--drawing Courtesy of Wheeler Kearns Architects |
The people
Architects: Wheeler Kearns Architects
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Client: Withheld
Construction: Norcon, Inc.
Structure: Thornton Tomasetti
Consulting Engineer: James Carpenter Design Associates
MEP Engineer: IBC Engineering
Interiors: Leslie Jones & Associates
Lighting: Charter Sills
Acoustics: Acoustic Expertise
Landscape Architects: McKay Landscape Architecture, Xavier Vendrell Studio
Completed: 2007
Photographs: Hedrich Blessing (Steve Hall, Jon Miller, Craig Dugan)
via:archdaily
