Orchard East House by Wheeler Kearns Architects

Wheeler Kearns Architects have designed this urban residence of orchard east house for a family of four located in Chicago, Illinois. A broad, introverted, opaque volume of private spaces floats above a fully transparent, extroverted space at grade that extends, below the canopy of the volume above, into the garden. This orchard east residence is a warm, intimate home that can transform into a place... 

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Canoe Reach Riverfront Residence

This riverfront residence engages the landscape at the entry courtyard to visually minimise the garage and give the false appearance of a one story loggia. This sets up an unexpected arrival sequence to a central courtyard that opens up to a two story space with overhead parasol roof. This courtyard is the central focus of the house which embraces the notion of an outdoor/ indoor area for the family... 

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