Ranch Operations // Miró Rivera Architects

TX, United States

Architizer Editors

Project Status: Built

Year: 2010

Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft

Budget: 1M – 5M

Text description provided by the architects.

The Ranch Operations buildings presented an opportunity to explore the juxtaposition of simple utilitarian structures against the Texas Hill Country landscape.
Designed with a common 16-foot module, the structural layout for the two buildings is identical, leaving manipulation of the skin system as the primary vehicle for meeting the programmatic needs for the project.

These needs include office space and a shop, maintenance vehicle storage as well as general storage.
The steel volumes are differentiated by function as a planar floating roof with detached perimeter walls for vehicle storage, a more opaque enclosure for the storage building, and a perforated volume in the case of the office structure.

The deployment of these two structures across the landscape, their white walls contrasting the native ground cover of the landscape, presents a simple strategy rooted in local vernacular tradition for the integration of structures within a larger natural context..