Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects

Light and air trial, which ended in a series of reflecting pools, punch volume and expand vertically through the house to distribute the reflected light, and activate the interior with rain and snow; further strengthen the blurred boundaries of interior and exterior spaces. This city is home to a warm and intimate home for a family of four that can be transformed into a gathering place for the necessary and have an integral relationship between interior and exterior experience. A large, enclosed, private space volume opaque floating above fully transparent, extroverted space stretching class, under the canopy volume above, into the garden. A collaborative design process led to the architectural and structural innovations that include a vertical post-tensioned concrete thermal mass of the forty-foot cantilevers; pultruded fiberglass flanges wide, filled with closed cell spray foam insulation, aerated concrete and covered with pigmented cement stucco autoclaved; thermally broken floor to ceiling glass curtain walls and sliding door systems.

Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects
Urban Residence by Wheeler Kearns Architects