Wheeler Kearns设计了这个位于伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的果园东部住宅。该住宅位于一片开阔的空地之上,住着一个有着四口人的家庭。在必要时,房屋也可以被转换成为一个集会地点。内部的设计和屋外空间很好的结合在了一起。 光线和空气通过住宅中宽大的窗户系统照射进入室内,人们透过这些窗户也很容易能够欣赏到屋外的风景,感受到室外的天气变化。 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 urban residence is a warm, intimate home for a family of four that can transform into a place of assembly as needed and has an integral connection between interior and exterior experiences. Light and air courts, terminating in a series of reflecting pools, perforate the volume and extend vertically through the house to distribute reflected light, and activate the interior with rain and snow; further reinforcing the blurred boundaries of interior and exterior space.