Yerger Residence
2015 AIA Arizona Award - Distinguished Building Citation
Phoenix, AZ
Modern Custom Home
Project Description:
This site for this project has one main view to the east towards Camelback Mountain. The intent of the project was to focus the views towards the iconic landmark to capture it and have it constantly presenced in the experience of the house while creating other contrasting, introspective moments of experience.
The project takes the form of an architectural cast-in-place concrete base upon which a floating sheet steel clad open-ended volume and an 8-4-16 masonry volume are situated. This CMU has a sandblasted finish in order to expose the warmth of the local Salt River aggregate that comprises this material.
An entry sequence leading from the street, along a koi pond, into the entry, and to a negative edge pool distinguish the main public spaces and master suite while offering a place of repose. The main living space of the house maintains an open plan configuration and borrows Camelback Mountain and brings it into this space. This relationship is further maintained by the ability to slide sliding glass doors completely away for an uninhibited view.
The master suite by contrast is a more cellular division of spaces that control views and privacy. A study is located at the same level as the entry and living space while the master bedroom and master bathroom are situated higher in section to allow for additional privacy. The master bedroom has one specific corner view whose sliding glass door is mounted to the exterior of the CMU volume in order to exacerbate the specifity of this view. For reasons of privacy, the master suite is an introverted and focused series of interior spaces and exterior spaces while still maintaining a view to Camelback Mountain from the master bedroom.
The CIP concrete base houses a sunken garage and an exercise area that leads to a sunken garden in the back of the house. This garden is adjacent to an exercise room and offers a location for outside exercise. By configuring this base lower than the original grade, the project sought to minimize the impact of the vehicle as part of the primary elevation.
The floating volume which houses the living room and two bedrooms is a metal stud framed construction whose cladding is comprised of blind fastened 4’ X 15’ 10 gauge sheets of A588 weathering steel. In order to minimize the economic impact of this cladding, 40,000lbs of steel were cut to size from a coil and shipped directly from the steel mill in Alabama to the job site. This strategy proved to be more economic as the cost of ordering directly from the steel mill proved to be less than using normal non-weathering steel from a local steel supplier. Additionally, less handling and fabrication was required due to the direct shipping further reducing cost.
The interior finishes are comprised of polished wenge millwork, non-directional stainless steel countertops, white Carrera marble, and terrazzo flooring. These interior finishes juxtapose the more industrial finishes of CIP concrete, the exposed sandblasted CMU, and weathering steel.
Phoenix, AZ
Modern Custom Home
Project Description:
This site for this project has one main view to the east towards Camelback Mountain. The intent of the project was to focus the views towards the iconic landmark to capture it and have it constantly presenced in the experience of the house while creating other contrasting, introspective moments of experience.
The project takes the form of an architectural cast-in-place concrete base upon which a floating sheet steel clad open-ended volume and an 8-4-16 masonry volume are situated. This CMU has a sandblasted finish in order to expose the warmth of the local Salt River aggregate that comprises this material.
An entry sequence leading from the street, along a koi pond, into the entry, and to a negative edge pool distinguish the main public spaces and master suite while offering a place of repose. The main living space of the house maintains an open plan configuration and borrows Camelback Mountain and brings it into this space. This relationship is further maintained by the ability to slide sliding glass doors completely away for an uninhibited view.
The master suite by contrast is a more cellular division of spaces that control views and privacy. A study is located at the same level as the entry and living space while the master bedroom and master bathroom are situated higher in section to allow for additional privacy. The master bedroom has one specific corner view whose sliding glass door is mounted to the exterior of the CMU volume in order to exacerbate the specifity of this view. For reasons of privacy, the master suite is an introverted and focused series of interior spaces and exterior spaces while still maintaining a view to Camelback Mountain from the master bedroom.
The CIP concrete base houses a sunken garage and an exercise area that leads to a sunken garden in the back of the house. This garden is adjacent to an exercise room and offers a location for outside exercise. By configuring this base lower than the original grade, the project sought to minimize the impact of the vehicle as part of the primary elevation.
The floating volume which houses the living room and two bedrooms is a metal stud framed construction whose cladding is comprised of blind fastened 4’ X 15’ 10 gauge sheets of A588 weathering steel. In order to minimize the economic impact of this cladding, 40,000lbs of steel were cut to size from a coil and shipped directly from the steel mill in Alabama to the job site. This strategy proved to be more economic as the cost of ordering directly from the steel mill proved to be less than using normal non-weathering steel from a local steel supplier. Additionally, less handling and fabrication was required due to the direct shipping further reducing cost.
The interior finishes are comprised of polished wenge millwork, non-directional stainless steel countertops, white Carrera marble, and terrazzo flooring. These interior finishes juxtapose the more industrial finishes of CIP concrete, the exposed sandblasted CMU, and weathering steel.
Project Year: 2010
Project Cost: $750,001 - $1,000,000
Country: United States
Others who worked on this project: Creative Concrete and Masonry
