Glass/Wood House - Exterior Decking

Built: 2010

Glass/Wood house was built in New Canaan Connecticut by owner and designer John Black Lee. The house was completed in 1956 and was a gloriously symmetrical structure nestled among the trees. In 2010, Kengo Kuma and Associates designed a transparent, L-shaped addition that sits just to the west of the original. The interior is almost entirely open, with very few walls. Instead, stainless steel mesh screens differentiate circulation space from other parts of the program. The structure is composed of steel columns only 3 inches wide and 6 inches deep, with equally minimal steel beams, and a roof supported by exposed glue-laminated spruce joists.