Located in Chicago’s vibrant Lakeview neighborhood, the four year project recently completed by Harrington College of Design’s own faculty member Constantine Vasilios is truly an Architecture and Interior Design innovation in experience, quality of detail and refinement. Drawing from his extensive thirty plus years of industry experience, Constantine and his team from CVADesign created a house that breathed life into the clients’ dreams and excitement in the stage set of everyday life that a house provides. Constantine takes us on an exclusive tour of the exterior and interior of the house below!
Exterior: The entry sequence provides materials of wrought iron, copper, and exterior lighting to showcase the house in the evening.
Living Area: The first level fireplace and surroundings are a testimony of precise design requirements executed in fine craftsmanship. The interior celebrates a flow of space with various leaks to light.
Water Wall: Upon entering the house, the verticality is expressed in a glass window, flanked by the lazy rolling water falling from the top of the house to the lower level.
First Level: The interior is planned about an axis that penetrates the house. Cross axes provide focus to fireplaces, stairways, and the kitchen. Through arches interpreted with thousands of spheres pinned to trim the sides. On top of the columns are blown glass capitals.
Portion of the Kitchen: The kitchen is compact, efficient, and celebrates client requested warmth.
Guest Suite: This second level fireplace is surrounded by art and cabinetry, housing the owner’s glass. The double door French balcony opens to the quiet murmur of water.
Master Bathroom: The Master Bathroom concept is furniture placed among reclaimed alabaster for a tranquil environment. The skylight is positioned on top of the Jacuzzi for gazing at the sky and passing of clouds.
Master Bedroom
About Constantine D. Vasilios, AIA, NCARB, IIDA, NCIDQ:
Constantine D. Vasilios received his Bachelor of Architecture in Design degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he studied with Peter Pran and Richard Whitaker. He attended a year abroad in the overseas program at Versailles, France combining studio with travel to several countries. He received his Master of Architecture degree with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied, traveled, and completed his thesis with the late Charles W. Moore. He also participated in the overseas program at Oxford, England. Prior to leaving Austin, he served as a teaching assistant for Charles Moore and lectured to graduate students in History of Architecture and Art.
He has worked in the Chicago offices of Tigerman McCurry, Pappageorge Haymes, and assisted in the office of Charles Moore and Associates. He is a principal in the firm Constantine D. Vasilios & Associates Ltd, and has over thirty years of experience in the fields of Architecture and Interior Design. His resume includes buildings such as museums, recreational, residential and not-for-profit. He has participated in several exhibitions, has been published, and has received awards over the years. He has been a guest lecturer and/or visiting studio critic at several schools of Architecture and Interior Design. He served as Studio Master, and has been a faculty member at the Harrington College of Design since 1996. He is the recipient of the 2008 AIA Illinois Nathan Clifford award for teaching excellence and practice.
Photography by Peter Bosy
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