US studio SILO has created a sculptural, metal-clad home in North Carolina for one of its principals that is meant to break away from the "suburban-type" development emerging in its historic setting.
The house belongs to Marc Manack, an architecture professor and founding principal of SILO, and his wife, Kallisto Vimr.
SILO has created a sculptural, metal-clad home in North Carolina
After years of living in studio apartments, the couple set out to build a new home in Belmont, a historic neighbourhood near Charlotte's Uptown district.
Belmont has been transforming in recent years, with suburban-style homes popping up alongside modest dwellings that once served as worker housing for a local cotton mill.
The house belongs to the studio's founder and his wife With the Steel Louise project, SILO aimed to create a contextually sensitive house that contributed to the neighbourhood's "civic life".
"Our design opposes recent development that mimics suburban types," the team said.
The team sought to oppose the recent suburban-style development of the surrounding neighbourhood
"Steel Louise is a single-family, urban infill house that reckons with dramatic contradictions between its site's past and present, becoming a private house with a unique public persona."
Square in plan, the two-storey home has a sculptural body with a variety of slopes, cutouts and openings. The form and massing respond to surrounding buildings, from the existing mill hou...