Amidst the hustle and bustle of busy Chicago streets stands a new townhouse with a modern and yet reclaimed aesthetic. Thanks to impressive thinking and insight from moss Design, Cortez Street House stands high, providing new clients a place to both run their shop and live comfortably with their family, each in healthy balance.

在繁忙的芝加哥街道的喧嚣中，矗立着一座新的联排别墅，它有一座现代的，但又被重新利用的美学。多亏了苔藓设计公司给人留下深刻印象的思考和洞察力，Cortez街大厦屹立不倒，为新客户提供了一个既经营店铺又与家人舒适相处的地方，每个人都保持着健康的平衡。

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The building that the house sits in now was originally a slightly out-of-place two story masonry building nestled amongst more traditional looking family homes. Because it was already a structure that possessed its own shop space on the ground floor, it made the perfect site for this collaborating team for two reasons; first, because this is the kind of “odd” building that these architects specializing in giving a new lease on life to, and second because the new owners actually run a store and needed a new retail space of their own as well.

这座房子现在所处的建筑原本是一座稍微有点不合适的两层砖石建筑，坐落在更传统的家庭住宅中。因为它已经是一个在底层拥有自己的店铺空间的建筑，所以它成为这个合作团队的完美场所有两个原因：第一，因为这是一种“奇怪”的建筑，这些建筑师专门为它提供新的生命，第二，因为新的业主实际上经营着一家商店，同时也需要一个新的零售空间。

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Most likely a butcher shop originally, the ground floor already boasted several features before renovation that designers decided to keep because they could prove useful for the new clients. These features included a large cooler that is now used for its intended purpose but also as a de facto divider between retail and living spaces. To maximize the large space afforded to the ground floor around the building, designers chose to add a cantilevered extension at the back where they established a beautiful master bedroom and bathroom. Sure, it’s on the same floor as the store, but creative layouts and space management help maintain a good work-life balance even so.

最有可能的是一家肉店，一楼在装修前已经夸耀了几个特色，设计师决定保留这些功能，因为它们可能对新客户有用。这些功能包括一个大型冷却器，现在用于其预定用途，但也作为事实上的隔断零售和生活空间。为了最大限度地利用建筑周围的底层空间，设计师们选择在建筑后面增加一个悬臂式的延伸，在那里他们建立了一个漂亮的主卧室和浴室。当然，它是在同一层的商店，但创造性的布局和空间管理有助于保持良好的工作-生活平衡，即便如此。

On its upper floor, the house features a second bedroom, a second bathroom, and a private outdoor deck. Extending all the way up from the ground floor, large windows provide lovely natural light. At the same time, the edges of the newly built extension serve more than one purpose. Firstly, they provide shade on days that might otherwise get a little too hot. Beyond that, they actually collect rain water for use in the garden!

在它的上层，房子有第二个卧室，第二个浴室，和一个私人户外甲板。从底层一直延伸，大窗户提供可爱的自然光。同时，新建造的延伸部分的边缘有一个以上的用途。首先，他们提供阴凉的日子，否则可能会变得有点太热。除此之外，他们还收集雨水供花园使用！

If you think the rain collection edges are awesome, wait until you read what else these designers added. In order to make the house even more green and sustainable, the team actually built a Corten siding and VaproShield drainage system within the siding of the house’s exterior walls, allowing even more water collection and protecting the house from potentially damaging moisture build-up.

如果你认为雨水收集的边缘是可怕的，等到你阅读这些设计师补充的其他东西。为了使房子更加绿色和可持续，研究小组实际上在房子外墙的壁板上建造了一个Corten壁板和VaproShield排水系统，这样可以收集更多的水，并保护房子免受潜在的湿气堆积。

Besides enabling fantastic run-off and water collection, this kind of siding also bears a natural rust colour that complements the Chicago Common style brick of the main building fantastically. The aesthetic is at once stylishly weathered looking and more traditionally expired despite being brand new. The two materials in combination make the outside a focal point of natural looking materials and warm hues on the otherwise slightly industrial looking street.

这种墙面除了能进行奇妙的排水和取水外，还带有天然的生锈色，这是对主建筑的芝加哥通用风格砖的完美补充。这种美学是一种风格各异的外观，尽管是全新的，但在传统上已经过时了。这两种材料结合在一起，使外面成为自然材料和温暖色调的焦点，在原本略带工业色彩的街道上。

As we mentioned, the new owners put the original retail space on the ground floor to great immediate use as their very own corner store. This hearkens back to a historical tradition in Chicago itself where corner stores were essential to neighbourhoods and owners did, in fact, live behind and above their stores. Now, locals appreciate a slightly modernized version of that tradition that has an authentic feel thanks to the way designers kept several original features in place in their renovation.

正如我们所说，新业主把原来的零售空间放在一楼，立即作为他们自己的街角商店使用。这让人回想起芝加哥的一个历史传统，在那里街角商店对邻里来说是必不可少的，事实上，店主们住在商店的后面和上面。现在，当地人欣赏这一传统的稍微现代化的版本，有一种真实的感觉，这要归功于设计师在装修过程中保留了一些原始的功能。

Photos by Carmen Troesser

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