Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Camp Frio
Camp Frio
Leakey, TX, United States
Finalist, 2021 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Low Cost Design
Project Featured on May 07, 2019
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Camp Frio
Leakey, TX, United States
Finalist, 2021 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Low Cost Design
Project Featured on May 07, 2019
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
A multi-family compound rises from a remote, grassy valley on the bank of the Frio River
deep in the Texas Hill Country.
The goal for this project was to create shelters with an environmental experience unique to
its place where Summer madness gives way to Winter stillness. Where city life and digital
stimulation are replaced by the experience of feeling a cool breeze or snuggling up to a
warm fire.
Structures consist of a main house, meditation room over art studio/garage, and two guest
studio cottages. Main house and cottages are linked by a slightly elevated walkway which
enables barefoot kids to run back and forth over the tall grass and creepie crawlers.
Much like “Dogtrot” shelters from the past, a “breezeway” bookended by concealed multislide
doors, bisects the main house enabling alfresco dining most of the year; alternatively,
the space is zoned and can be enclosed for heating. Screened porches, front and back,
envelope cozy living chambers. Secondary sleeping spaces occupy an attic that spans the
rear porch of the main house while cottages feature open “kid’s” lofts.
Structures were detailed for simplicity of construction with readily available, local materials
and fashioned by local tradesmen.
Reporting after their first weekend in camp, the Owner enthusiastically announced that
spaces “are cozy… but ample and gracious; dark and moody…. but bright and airy.”
deep in the Texas Hill Country.
The goal for this project was to create shelters with an environmental experience unique to
its place where Summer madness gives way to Winter stillness. Where city life and digital
stimulation are replaced by the experience of feeling a cool breeze or snuggling up to a
warm fire.
Structures consist of a main house, meditation room over art studio/garage, and two guest
studio cottages. Main house and cottages are linked by a slightly elevated walkway which
enables barefoot kids to run back and forth over the tall grass and creepie crawlers.
Much like “Dogtrot” shelters from the past, a “breezeway” bookended by concealed multislide
doors, bisects the main house enabling alfresco dining most of the year; alternatively,
the space is zoned and can be enclosed for heating. Screened porches, front and back,
envelope cozy living chambers. Secondary sleeping spaces occupy an attic that spans the
rear porch of the main house while cottages feature open “kid’s” lofts.
Structures were detailed for simplicity of construction with readily available, local materials
and fashioned by local tradesmen.
Reporting after their first weekend in camp, the Owner enthusiastically announced that
spaces “are cozy… but ample and gracious; dark and moody…. but bright and airy.”
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.