ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 407
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Dec 5 17:00:47 PST 2008
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CHICAGO AIA AWARDS 2008
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For a Chicago house they call Case Study 1875, the
architects collaborated with engineers and fabricators
to develop a skin thermally isolated from the structure,
allowing an experience of indoor-outdoor connection
without great loss of heat during the cold Illinois
winters.
As designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, water-clear
window walls separate the ground-level interior from a
garden. Two of the ceiling-hung glass walls entirely
open one corner of the house, connecting seamlessly with
the outside over a flush threshold.
The "Case Study 1875" house was honored by the Chicago
chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA
Chicago) in its 2008 design excellence awards. Other
award recipients include a Jewish studies institute, a
vaulted glass roof at the University of Chicago, a
restaurant interior, and an unbuilt modern village in
Shanghai.
Exemplary Example
At Case Study 1875 the home of Penny Pritzker -
an opaque concrete second story with 40-foot
(12-meter) cantilevers seems to hover over the
transparent ground-floor space. A thermal sink for the
building, this structure is clad in pultruded fiberglass
battens filled with closed-cell foam insulation, and
sheathed in aerated autoclaved concrete panels and
pigmented cement stucco.
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