Projects
Downtown Austin Cabana
Pecos Residence
Pecos Residence
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Hunterwood Residence
Hunterwood Residence Client Brief: Clients desired and upgraded, transitional feel and updated space planning for this existing residence. Unique features and Challenges: Fine attention to detail and material selections were layered carefully into a thoughtful, practical and functional new space plan for this existing residence.
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Horseshoe Bay Residence Unique Features and Challenges: The house is a symbiotic blend of casual lake living with an over-arching aesthetic that is at once vernacular and sophisticated. Rough materials were reinvented and crafted to blend these notions. Site slope was a major factor in the overall design and site plan of the house. A…
Read MoreOld West Enfield Residence
Client Brief: Goals for this young family of four were many. A fully-amenitized residence that allowed for future growth, entertaining and family fun were primary desires. Additionally, this client desired to maintain a high degree of commitment to preserving the soul of the original design of the house. Unique Features and Challenges: The existing structure, built…
Read MoreCherry Lane Residence
Client Brief: Active lifestyle empty nester couple of two boys desired a manageable yet elegant home rich with outdoor living opportunity and space for entertaining. Unique Features & Challenges: Beautiful Oak trees provided both a challenge as well as an organizing element for this empty-nester residence. The resultant design responds with a pair of courtyards.…
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Matthews Drive Residence
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Shoal Creek Residence
Client Brief: Goals for this family of four included minimalist design; ample, direct connection to exterior spaces, and layered insulation and privacy from the adjacent busy street within a one-story layout. Unique Features and Challenges: The incredibly narrow street front dictated an opportunity for flowing, light-filled spaces organized around a simple courtyard and swimming…
Read MorePedernales Residence
Client Brief: Young couple with children desired low maintenance shell with functional beauty for vacation home on the Pedernales. Unique Features & Challenges: Blending casual living with honest materials and a contemporary aesthetic to create a beautiful yet practical vacation home.
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Client Brief: Single business owner and consultant with modern Wrightian tastes, desired central Austin location. Unique Features & Challenges: Legal building area of the site was extremely challenging with limited yard area. The solution lay in vertical development of outdoor space and the capturing of private views from within.
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Judge’s Hill Residence Client Brief: Young couple loved their existing cottage style house but needed room for baby and wanted to bring a contemporary ‘wash’ to the house. Unique Features & Challenges: How best to blend old and new? Addition solution stands in stark contrast to the existing cottage to serve as background. Color…
Read MoreMendocino Residence
Mendocino Residence Client Brief: Blended family of six desired contemporary, flowing space for an active family lifestyle. Unique Features & Challenges: Neighbors in close proximity drove a modified H-shaped plan allowing the house to reach around and capture exterior space. The result is private exterior space that flows to the interior. The wings of the…
Read MoreSilver Ridge Residence
Silver Ridge Residence Client Brief: a family of four (this is my house!) desiring modernist aesthetic and connection to daylight and exterior with a balance of warmth and the ability to entertain often. Unique Features & Challenges: the existing structure was in disrepair and had been closed in with years of layered materials. The…
Read MoreEnfield Residence
Enfield Residence Client Brief: find co-existence between maximum outdoor space, and natural light and the heavily-trafficked, adjacent arterial street. Unique Features & Challenges: Use the maximum length and edges of the corner lot to define private rear yard combined with layered courtyards and landscaping on the street front to create noise isolation, view, and privacy.…
Read MorePemberton Residence
Pemberton Residence Client Brief: Custom addition/remodel for a blended family of five; active outdoor lifestyle; entertaining is a high priority Unique Features & Challenges: the existing house was in very bad shape; the original mid-century design had been muddled over time. The existing site was completely undeveloped (rear yard) and topography was a formidable challenge. …
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