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Contemporary House Design in Iowa City Residence by Substance Architecture

Iowa City residence was built in 1941 and then expanded
several times over several decades. Iowa City is a
massive housing complex. The desire to liberate and set
the interior space and connect them to this landscape is a
central theme that guided the renovation of the house


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The designers employed served to simplify and expand
the house. Gable form of expanded vertically to increase
the volume of existing homes in the foundation.
Existing window replaced and extended their rhythm to
order the fenestration of the house. The result is, simple
is almost typical, “a house”. Volume spike is then
expanded with a series of porch provides a transition
space between inside and outside, as well as sun
protection for the newly enlarged opening glass. Home
is, in turn, frames the exterior space around the house.






The interior is equally direct. The first level of the house
into a single, white, open the volume with a mass of
dark room service stationed outside the center. This
mass of finely defines the first level of living space. The
second level houses the bedroom while the attic into the
living room to play, flanked by an additional bedroom