This section was a revolutionary. For years builders out west in New Mexico and Chaco Canyon knew this and built their adobes with passive heating and cooling in mind. It was Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture without Architects but they were more sophisticated than many of today’s architectural practitioners.
How to apply these lessons to urban America and specifically dense urban neighborhoods like Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Hyde Park and Logan Square?
Asking our clients “How do you want to live?” is the foundational principle of make Architecture. And specifically how do we realign older homes to today’s lifestyles and passively cool and heat them? How do we bathe spaces in full winter sun and shade them in the July heat? Here’s one such example.
How to apply these lessons to urban America and specifically dense urban neighborhoods like Chicago’s Lincoln Park, Hyde Park and Logan Square?
Asking our clients “How do you want to live?” is the foundational principle of make Architecture. And specifically how do we realign older homes to today’s lifestyles and passively cool and heat them? How do we bathe spaces in full winter sun and shade them in the July heat? Here’s one such example.
Inside meet outside.
Chicago, Illinois
How do you want to live?
“We want an inside/outside space with a new kitchen & place to gather”
How do you want to live?
“We want an inside/outside space with a new kitchen & place to gather”