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Filigree House

 
On a prominent street in Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital neighborhood, a new 4,500sf home sits on a double wide infill lot. In order to create a veiled sense of privacy for the owner and visual interest on the street, a carefully crafted, 4-layer brick screen façade system with a curved steel support frame was developed. Behind the façade, material finishes include a freestanding helical steel and wood stair, bringing vertical movement to the dynamic two-story façade.

 
 
 
 
“The project mediates the contextual conditions of the street through form, height, and materiality of the volumes, and then more significantly through the delicate articulation of the brick veil.”

- AIA PA Award Jury
 
 
The interior of the home is anchored by a large metal curved stair from the first floor to the second, and is visible through the framed views of the screen, while allowing views into and through the first floor.
 
 
 
“That layering...its striking, its restrained, balanced with playfulness.”

- AIA PA Award Jury