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The Ansley Glass House is located in a historic downtown neighborhood, with a mature tree canopy and direct
views to the immediate city skyline. The project replaces the rear half of the house with a new glass-lined
living space including a kitchen, family room, library, and a new stair linking three levels. The structure
is capped with an occupiable roof deck surrounded by glass guardrails and clerestories, offering diagonal
sightlines into the living spaces below.
The clients expressed a strong desire to have their domestic spaces perceptually lodged in the out-of-doors,
and to have a visceral presence of the city skyline, in both night and day. The configuration of the interior
spaces is arranged as a series of half-levels, each spiraling around a new central stair. The stair is suspended
from adjacent and overhead structure, and uppermost rooms are cantilevered and suspended over lower ones. In stark
contrast to the front half of the residence, the use of glass as a cladding material establishes a permeable boundary
between the house and its immediate context, provides for light and views, and materially engages the glass
skyscrapers just a couple of blocks away. This combination — offset and cantilevered interior spaces viewable
through a transparent exterior cladding — proposes a residential experience which is both spatially and visually
suspended within the very close context.
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