PorterFanna Architecture

Completed while employed by Peter Gluck and Partners Architects

Cascade House

Winnetka, IL

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From the street and from inside, this house appears rather simple and unimposing, but in fact it is a very large house with an extremely complex program. Signifi cant parts of the house are cut into the bluff and are not visible from the street and these buried spaces express themselves as irregular horizontal fi ssures in the hillside. The experience of
moving through the house from the bluff to the lake takes advantage of the steep slope by way of a series of descending spaces set off from one another in both plan and section which aff ord dramatic and ever-changing views of the water.