Project Details
- Project Name
- Hinsdale Residence
- Architect
- Wheeler Kearns Architects
- Project Types
- Single Family
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 0 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2011
- Shared by
- Beth Garneata
- Team
- Jon Heinert, Principal
- Consultants
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Architect of Record: Wheeler Kearns Architects,Landscape Architect: Scott Byron & Company,Other: Threshold Acoustics,General Contractor: Norcon
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $0
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
The Hinsdale Residence is designed for a family to re-connect to a much denser community while maintaining the privacy they previously enjoyed in a more remote location. Situated on a suburban wooded lot, the house is pulled back from the road and rotated to visually diminish its presence and maximize its ideal exposure to the sun and protected views. The house uses its length to re-enforce the directionality of the site while meeting the project goals.
A long, sawn stone service bar rests on a concrete base, housing bedrooms above a garage and a sports court. A glass pavilion sits alongside the service bar, containing a two-story living area. The pavilion expands out into the landscape through glass panels that pocket out of sight, leaving the living space an open-air frame structure.
Terraces and reflecting pools extend the living out under protected eaves and trellis to further blur the boundaries between inside from out. Those spaces and distant views from them are protected by using the stone as a blinder to neighboring homes. Unique, intimate experiences are created through portal views that run perpendicular to the grain.
Daylighting strategies include clerestory and light shelves along with extended eaves to reduce solar heat gain. Deep wells power a geothermal system for heating and cooling of the continuously insulated envelope. The roof allows for future solar panels to be ideally positioned, while the green roof, bioswale, pervious hardscape surfaces and detention pond greatly reduce the stormwater run-off.
