The Chicago Green House manifests architecture’s ability to communicate the implicit intentions of a building program through the language of construction. In the broadest of terms, Green refers to the inter-connectedness of all things. The relationship of interior to exterior spaces, the juxtaposition of materials and the manner in which they are assembled, and the introduction of color where not typically found are examples of breaking the pattern of expectation. These differences confront the visitor with the contrasting orders of the man-made and the natural and establish a figure/ground relationship between building and landscape that illustrates the breadth of the current gap between humankind and the sources that sustain us. To that end, the Chicago Green House does not represent a solution as much as it signals a wicked problem: our strategies for growth and development – the exploitation of natural resources for personal profit – are not sustainable.
A winner of the Green Homes for Chicago design competition, the Chicago Green House incorporates green, sustainable, and energy-efficient building technologies into an affordable single-family residence. |
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