Lyndale Roof Deck
The Lyndale Garage was designed as both a replacement for a dilapidated stick-frame garage and an open-air addition to a single-family home on Chicago’s northwest side. Located on a standard city lot, the new two-car garage was conceived of as a podium for a new “exterior room” for the owners to host small social gatherings for friends and family. The rooftop deck was designed to facilitate casual lounging, small outdoor dinner parties and barbeques. Given its close proximity to adjacent roof decks and the elevated full southern sun exposure, an aesthetic design element – a custom CNC-milled trellis – was developed to serve as a privacy screen, solar shading mechanism, and ornamental wall texture. The patterning of the trellis was engineered to satisfy optimal manufacturing criteria while maintaining owner-required functional use parameters and amplifying the use of light and shadow as ephemeral materials to create an intimate and dynamic environment.
Client: Private Client
Location: Chicago, IL
Size: 450 SF New Construction
Status: Completed 2019
The CNC-milled screen wall pattern varies in the size of its’ openings in response to solar orientation, shading and privacy concerns.
The materiality of each primary element of the Lyndale Garage was carefully curated to satisfy a number of factors ranging from sustainability, to constructability, to aesthetics and code-compliance. Masonry was selected for the walls of the structure for its fire-resistant properties, load bearing strength, and aesthetic likeness to the southern wall of the principal building. Similarly, marine grade plywood was selected for the trellis panels for its durability, structural integrity and its appropriateness to the immediate surroundings. Nestled within its residential alleyway, the project stands as a bespoke yet contextually sensitive structure amidst its neighbors.
Contractor: Division 3 Corporation
Structural Engineer: Rockey Structures
Panel Fabrication: S.S.P. Fabrication + 1840 Creative
Panel Design-Build: DAAM Builds w/ Building Brown Workshop
Photography: DAAM