Creek-View Poolhouse

Burr Ridge, IL, United States

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Creek-View Poolhouse

Burr Ridge, IL, United States

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FRAGMENT architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$500K - 1M

The pool house addition to the existing dwelling is designed to emanate from the physical characteristics of its site givens, i.e. the existing dwelling materiality and the redesigned embracing landscape. Establishing a dialogue with the site`s restrictions of a slopy topography on one hand and framing up the spectacular views of the site on the other was the driving design concept. The residents of the house needed an escape-away space that relates them to the natural views of their garden, an experience that feels like a resort-level atmosphere with multi-seasonal structure that can be utilized all year long.
The program was to add an indoor pool house with its associated service amenities, a shower, powder room, and a lounge space. The addition took the position of continuum to the existing house yet providing moments for recreation and outdoor living. Architecturally, the volume of the pool enclosure was attached to house to act as a mediator between the embracing slopy topography and the house itself. This necessitates to introduce an inside-out communicative space between the addition and the house where residents can enjoy shady outdoor space in summer times. To increase pool-deck area, a cantilevered concrete balcony was added offering generous seating space along a retractable, giant sliding door to optimize gathering capacity around the pool. As the addition happens at the lowest level of the house, its roof offers a massive 1,200 SF balcony area that gives the residents a great outdoor sitting space overlooking the garden. The placement of pool basin was shifted to the side of the space to mimic infinity pool effect while at the edge.
The geometrical composition was initially envisaged in planimetric mode; with an emphasis on emanating from the house’s side wall projecting towards the garden`s views. The line defining the far end of the volume was in fact the axis of the two oak trees that were cut down due to their location at the addition. The overall all volumetric composition was to emphasize simplicity yet sharpness that reverberate the site`s topography with respecting the dwelling`s formal identity.
Structurally, the pool basin was constructed with reinforced shotcrete walls, sitting within another box of concrete foundation walls playing the role of superstructure for the pool house itself. As the structure sitting on a drastically sloping terrain with fairly high-grade change, the pool basin was oriented to keep the deep-end with huge loads placed at the least excavated soil, whereas the shallow-end is at the slope side. With that being done, the loads exerted on the foundation walls near the slope become minimal.
Materiality selection was carefully made to address site`s. The lower base, the superstructure, was clad with natural stone identical to that of the cascading planters. Whereas the pool house was dressed in smooth finish stucco to express lightness and contemporary look in order to speak of its time. The interior finishes selection landed with Travertine-effect porcelain to grant the interior atmosphere a sense of warmth and earthly feeling.

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Creek-View Poolhouse

Burr Ridge, IL, United States

Creek-View Poolhouse

Burr Ridge, IL, United States

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