322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture

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  • Architects: Substance Architecture: substance
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Paul Crosby
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Owens Corning, Lightolier, VELUX Group, American Olean, Artemide, Caesar, Diamond Vogel, Hafele, James Hardie, Kohler, McElroy, Omega Fence Systems, Pella EFCO, Énergie

Text description provided by the architects. This Iowa City residence, built in 1941 and subsequently expanded several times over the intervening decades, was a complex mass housing a warren of rooms with no overall sense of organization. The home had one compelling feature - a large site in an established neighborhood surrounded by mature trees. The desire to liberate and organize the interior spaces and connect them to this landscape was a central theme which guided the homes renovation.

322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture - Windows, Facade
© Paul Crosby

The designers employed a series of transformational tactics to simplify and expand the home. The gable form was expanded vertically (by increasing the roof slope) and extruded to the north to increase the homes volume within the existing foundation. The existing windows were replaced and their rhythm extended to order the home’s fenestration. The result is a simple, almost archetypal, “house shape”. This gabled volume was then expanded with a series of porches providing a transitional space between inside and outside, as well as solar protection for new enlarged glass openings. These porches, in turn, frame exterior spaces around the home.

322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture - Windows, Facade
© Paul Crosby

The interior is similarly direct. The first level of the home becomes a single, white, open volume with a dark mass of service spaces placed off-center. This mass subtly defines the first level living spaces. The second level houses the bedrooms while the attic becomes a playroom space, flanked by additional bedrooms.

322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture - Table, Windows, Beam
© Paul Crosby

Throughout, efforts we made to create a cohesive whole with a sense of openness out of the cellular rooms of the existing home.

322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture - Countertop, Sink
© Paul Crosby

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Cite: "322 Reinvented / Substance Architecture" 24 Jul 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/70052/322-reinvented-substance-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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