Lakeview House is located in Chicago Illinois; the house designed for a photographer,
an architect and their growing family is a feat in multi-tasking; this 2200
square foot house sits on a mere 1950 square foot triangular lot which diminishes
to a 6 feet width in the rear and yet manages to produce a light filled single
family residence with a photography studio, architect’s office, child’s play
loft and carport while maintains client’s desire for outdoor space in a dense urban
neighborhood.
The
house ultimately takes form responding to strict zoning requirements as a design
catalyst; seen as a volume which has been carved away from below the remaining form
manages client’s programmatic requirements of live, work, entry, light, shade,
play, and garden.
A cement
board panel rain screen system successfully alters light and depth of surface over
the course of the day through the design of a coated anodized metal flashing detail
which extends 3/8 of an inch from the cement board face. Bound by commercial
use to the south and residential zoning to the north the house manages to
respond to its unique lot shape and urban typologies through subtle
transformations of form, material, and interior spatial relationships.