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SMITH RESIDENCE
Winner: The Chicago and Midwest Villa The design challenge was to create a five bedroom house with guest quarters utilizing the existing two bedroom house. The client requested a new building aesthetic to have a unifying modern architectural language. Johnson & Lee’s solution is the addition of a new structure with connecting decks enclosing the existing house. The axis of the new addition is rotated to take advantage of the Miami skyline. The new structure is a modernist statement in the manner of Le Corbusier with a concrete wall and punched openings. A screen wall defines the entrance, which is set apart from the building volume. The rear addition, facing Biscayne Bay is simple concrete framed with a glazed infill curtain wall enclosure to maximize the vista of the Bay and downtown skyline.  |