The Ardmore Home marks the primary constructed challenge for Chicago-based design studio Kwong Von Glinow, instantly proving their design chops are already effectively honed. Located on a standard Chicago lot subsequent to an alleyway, the design displays a recent flooring plan the place the personal and public dwelling areas are flipped, with the communal areas on the highest flooring and the bedrooms slightly below it. Being increased up, the open high degree advantages from extra pure mild with home windows situated on all 4 sides.
A curved, double-height atrium runs the lengthy size of the home and extends as much as the highest degree visually connecting the areas. The staircase is hidden simply behind the curved wall main as much as the second flooring.
4 triangular trusses delineate the 5 areas of the open plan: the lounge, powder room, eating room, kitchen island, and the kitchen.
The inside retains a minimalist coloration palette and materials collection of white partitions and ceilings paired with white oak wood flooring, trusses, and furnishings, making the area seem clear and vivid.
Home windows encompass the perimeter of the communal flooring, most notably, the 56-foot-long window that spans your entire size of the home.
One flooring down are the bedrooms that are pushed in the direction of the neighbor’s facet permitting for the atrium area.
Whereas the outside is trendy, the home maintains a way of custom with its rectangular kind and commonplace pitched roof.
The home sits atop a concrete base punctuated by the basement home windows. The primary flooring is clad in gray wooden on the underside half and black wooden on the higher half which continues the remainder of the way in which as much as cowl the second flooring as effectively.
Photographs by James Florio Pictures.
