Julia Heine/McInturff Architects
Kit of Parts, Washington, D.C.
mcinturff architects
bethesda, md.
Tasked with providing shelf space for a client’s extensive library, Mark McInturff, FAIA, and project designer Colleen Gove Healey devised a modular intervention that left existing walls essentially undisturbed. The system starts with doubled-steel-angle uprights, infilled with cherry, which support glass shelves separated by aluminum-plate spacers. Fixed at floor and ceiling, the assemblies proved highly adaptable. “Every time we came up with another thing to do, we looked back at those bookshelves,” says McInturff, who used the same system to support work and seating surfaces and an aluminum-faced cabinet that houses a gas fireplace and television.
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Project Credits
principal in charge: Mark McInturff, FAIA, McInturff Architects
project designer: Colleen Gove Healey, McInturff Architects
general contractor: Added Dimensions, Takoma Park, Md.
construction cost: Withheld
photography: Julia Heine
product details
flooring: Odegard, www.odegardinc.com; hardware: Forms+Surfaces, www.form-surfaces.com; lighting fixtures: Estiluz, www.estiluz.com, Halo, www.haloltg.com
