KING DRIVE RESIDENCE
Winner: The Chicago and Midwest Villa The site is a narrow urban lot, twenty-five feet wide located on the Near South Side of Chicago. The neighborhood is composed of two-story masonry structures with raised basements. This single-family residence faces a tree-lined boulevard that recalls an era of grand mansions. The program called for a single-family residence to be designed with two bedrooms and an attached garage. Due to a narrow site, the programmed square footage required the floor plan to be developed on four levels. The first level contains garage and family room. On the second level i the living room, formal dining area and kitchen. Te third floor contains master bedroom. A second bedroom is located on the fourth rear level. Johnson & Lee’s solution to the program’s spatial requirements necessitated a long narrow volume formed in a nontraditional manner so that all rooms would have an abundance of natural light. The building is an elongated ‘C’ shape with an interior courtyard. The main public space, the living room, is over scaled with high ceilings to match the existing scale of the adjacent houses. The exterior is a reflection of both historical and modernist details. The street facade is composed of masonry and stucco with limestone coping. |
  
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