Our house is a frame box sitting on top of steel beams that land on concrete columns. The architects are reinforcing and strengthening some of those connections with new steel posts in a range of places in the house, but particularly on the wall with the ribbon window.
The pink spray paint squares on the floor show where the new steel is. You can see the new beams being added as structural support where there were once walls running across. You can also see the new header on the ribbon window and the new columns running down through the floor.
Here you can see the new columns coming down through the floor and landing on the concrete columns just adjacent to the steel beam. These new columns change the rhythm of the window pattern in the front, which is fine with us but probably does in our potential for historic rehabilitation. We're good with it. Making the house structurally sound for the next phase of its life is our goal. As we get further into the process, it is easier to let go of some of the issues of original intent. To say that raises lots of interesting thoughts. It is true, however and the house is really starting to feel like ours, and I can feel our architect's design intentions coming alive. As we keep saying, we think the Gute would approve.
new steel in the kitchen going right down through the subfloor to the steel beam underneath.
Here the structural engineers are reinforcing beams that span a long distance
(our two car garage entrance under the kitchen) by adding layers of steel.
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