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Chicago home
Project Featured on Mar 19, 2014
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The Leavitt Residence is an extensive
renovation of a 1920's mercantile building in the Chicago neighborhood of
Bucktown. The 3-story existing structure consisted of heavy timber framing,
with brick cladding at the exterior. An effort was made to respect the existing
building while at the same time inserting dramatic new design gestures. The
most significant insertion was to add an expansive window wall which extrudes
upward and flows over the roof to create a highly transparent penthouse. The
window wall provides connection to a private yard, a valuable asset in this
dense urban setting.
The second major undertaking in the building renovation was to replace the east
façade which was determined unstable. The solution aims to replicate the
rhythm of the existing columns while also announcing a modernist influence at
the second level.
Mirroring the triangular footprint of the building, a 3-story triangular shaped
atrium is at the heart of the home, giving way to massive timber staircases
surrounded by cedar and glass. The original beams and exposed brick juxtapose
the modern Arclinea kitchen, echoing the same tension between old and new
that's created by the steel and glass window wall addition.
renovation of a 1920's mercantile building in the Chicago neighborhood of
Bucktown. The 3-story existing structure consisted of heavy timber framing,
with brick cladding at the exterior. An effort was made to respect the existing
building while at the same time inserting dramatic new design gestures. The
most significant insertion was to add an expansive window wall which extrudes
upward and flows over the roof to create a highly transparent penthouse. The
window wall provides connection to a private yard, a valuable asset in this
dense urban setting.
The second major undertaking in the building renovation was to replace the east
façade which was determined unstable. The solution aims to replicate the
rhythm of the existing columns while also announcing a modernist influence at
the second level.
Mirroring the triangular footprint of the building, a 3-story triangular shaped
atrium is at the heart of the home, giving way to massive timber staircases
surrounded by cedar and glass. The original beams and exposed brick juxtapose
the modern Arclinea kitchen, echoing the same tension between old and new
that's created by the steel and glass window wall addition.
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