Approximately one year ago I started contributing ideabooks to get . My first one concentrated on corner windows, including some houses with corners that almost disappeared through the use of mitered panes of glass, with no mullion in the place where they match. This ideabook looks at corner windows, but without limiting them. These examples may be mitered but more often than not a mullion retains the corner.
Most of the examples are presented from the outside and then the interior. With almost any window, what happens on the inside is more important than what is going on outside. Corner windows are similar to that to a larger degree, given they’re special assemblies that are a bit more difficult to build than standard punched openings. But as you’ll see, the benefits are worth it.
KUBE architecture
This house extension by KUBE Architecture resembles a white block that is punctuated by openings that are anything but traditional. Openings are of various sizes and in asymmetrical locations, like the effect of inside to outside is much important that the resulting elevations. From this angle a corner window jobs in the top floor.
KUBE architecture
Seen from the inside, the same corner window serves a small office area, providing the occupant a great panorama of the surrounding trees. An extremely great diversion really.
KUBE architecture
Taking another perspective of the house from KUBE, yet another corner window is visible, this time recessed instead of projecting.
KUBE architecture
A peek inside reveals the corner window to be in a bedroom. The window appears to bridge the long and low opening above the bed together with the tall one on a perpendicular wall. It’s clear the corner window will help bring in more sun to the room.
Klopf Architecture
At first glance the corner window in this Eichler House addition and redesign does not seem particularly special.
Klopf Architecture
But seeing out the corner in the interior reveals how special it actually is. The household has found a kids’s table, letting children to look from the window as they draw or read. This photograph illustrates the full potential of windows isn’t realized until some mechanism (furniture, built-in and these) for using it is additional.
Neiman Taber Architects
This house has a vertical corner window near the front. I am intrigued by its relationship to another windows, particularly the low and long one right next to it.
Neiman Taber Architects
Both of these openings are in the kitchen, sitting above the countertop and framing views in the foreground bar area. To me the low window is “eyes on the road” — urban activist Jane Jacobs’ phrase — making the tall corner window “eyes on the trees”
Randall Mars Architects
As in the prior example, the horizontal corner window within this perpendicular wood-clad volume makes you wonder, “What’s going on behind the opening?” Let’s take a look.
Randall Mars Architects
Again we have a kitchen. The window threads its way from the sink into the stove between the counter and the top shelves. Note the small operable window from the sink, an chance to let a snap in while washing pots and pans.
Charles Rose Architects Inc..
The Chilmark House from Charles Rose Architects includes a number of corners wrapped with windows. In the foreground the living room is observable, while beyond is another window overlooking the porch.
Charles Rose Architects Inc..
That second window is in a kitchen. Notice the intricate interplay between the windows (narrow and corner one on the left) along with the casework. Shelves pass and cantilever in front of the openings, setting the items on screen. (The cantilever actually needs a secondary arrangement, a small rod hung from the ceiling)
Charles Rose Architects Inc..
Another place from the Chilmark House reveals how the corner-window motif extends to even interior corners. This inset, restricted by some wood louvers, is home to a potted plant, so making very good use of a small and otherwise inaccessible area.
Klopf Architecture
This project may be called “dueling corner windows,” awarded these two almost equal openings facing each other across a patio.
Klopf Architecture
The interior of one of these (the one on the right in the prior photograph) reveals the clerestory windows throughout the rest of the room. The latter bring in plenty of light, but it is the corner window that allows for views of individuals outside and vice versa.
Randall Mars Architects
Talk about an interesting corner window. This one resembles an alien thing grafted onto portion of a traditional-looking house. Note how the window can be used to display some artwork.
Randall Mars Architects
From inside the artwork is also observable, now against a backdrop of trees. The window appears to be strategically placed to make the most of corridors and the view throughout the house.
John Senhauser Architects
This last example unfortunately does not have an interior view to accompany it, so it is up to your imagination. Like the previous house this corner window appears grafted onto another house. The stair resulting in the roof reveals the projecting window may be serving a couple of functions, as an appearance and as access to the more special realm above.
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