Clad in wood and topped with a standing seam metal roof, the building reads as part of the countryside—familiar in form, yet distinct in its geometry and spatial clarity.
Clad in wood and topped with a standing seam metal roof, the building reads as part of the countryside—familiar in form, yet distinct in its geometry and spatial clarity.

10-Car Garage
Accessory building in the countryside
Morris, Illinois
3,000 square feet
Undisclosed
Under Construction
Kwong Von Glinow: Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow, Nathan Geller, Andri Putri, Tianjiao Wang, Benjamin Luebkemann, Jonah LaDuca, Oana Giuglea, Jiachen Wang, Nicholas Papas, Hai Truong, Bridgette Anne Galve, Thao Vo; Goodfriend Magruder Structure, dbHMS, Bono Consulting Civil Services, Oslo Builders
10-Car Garage is an accessory building to a residence in Morris, Illinois, set within a 30-acre countryside estate west of Chicago. There, the landscape is defined by simple agricultural forms dispersed across the horizon. The project combines familiar farm archetypes like the pitched roof, the storage shed, and barrel dormers to form a single building. A gently curving linear volume settles into the landscape, while a triangular cut-through connects both sides of the building and frames views across the site. Five dormers wash the interior with diffuse daylight.
The elevation reads as a stretched horizontal line, while the gentle curve amplifies the forms of the pitched roof, shed, and barrel dormers, making them simultaneously ordinary and unexpected.

The garage is sited to preserve the surrounding landscape while maintaining a close relationship to the main house.

A long driveway extends from the road to a pasture before turning toward the residence.

With the house to the east, the garage curves off to the west, forming a small plaza.

Five cylindrical dormers punctuate the west-sloping roof, bringing light into the interior while below an opaque wood-clad facade is interrupted by a triangular window.

Garage doors are concealed within the east facade, allowing the triangular window to read as the only visible opening in an otherwise opaque surface.

Inside, a vaulted, curving ceiling amplifies and extends the experience of the ten-car volume.

At the south end, the east and west roof planes form a triangular void above the 10-foot tall wall datum, infilled with a single triangular glazing unit.

Directly across from one another, two triangular openings puncture the east and west facade.

A semicircular stainless-steel wet bar sits in the center of this space, providing a lounge and social area within the garage.
