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802, Cardinal Lane, Austin, TX, United States
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Court Houses
802, Cardinal Lane, Austin, TX, United States
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Type
YEAR
2011
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
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Houses are the result of our desire to increase density within the urban core
of Austin.
Instead of building one single family residence on a city lot, we built two.
The lot is on a corner, which provided separate points of access. The
surrounding neighborhood context is a mixture of residential projects and city
and private development infrastructure. This infrastructure, located across
each street forming the corner, informed a courtyard design for the houses as a
way to mitigate their presence and provide a private refuge. Formally each
house is an L, opposing one another to create a perimeter boundary surrounding an
internal courtyard. The courtyard is bisected by a mixed red handmade brick
wall as it weaves through the property, providing both physical and visual
separation between each house, as well as a contrast to the smooth steel
troweled white stucco used to clad the houses. The first floors are separated,
and these opposing separations provide passage into the courtyard and
subsequent entry for each house. The second floors are joined above these
exterior passages due to zoning restrictions, however distinct separation is
achieved through framing and ceiling heights. The overall massing of the
project was conceived as a stark white square box with the middle removed. From
this box we began to carve into the mass and create overhangs and perpendicular
walls into which we inserted most of the glazing. On the street side of the
houses this both provided shade for the glazing and oriented views up and down
the streets, as opposed to across the street to the surrounding infrastructure.
In the courtyard the overhangs provide covered exterior areas, however
extensive glazing was used facing the courtyard to capture daylight, while
careful placement maintains privacy between units. There was extensive bamboo
on the property prior to construction. We harvested all that was in the
footprint of the project and created a series of privacy and shading screens
with the bamboo. These provide a delicate contrast to the massive fields of
stucco and provide dynamic shadows and shade. Smart building technology was
used throughout construction in order to reduce consumption of energy. The
siting, orientation and courtyard design result in low solar heat gain with
plenty of daylighting.
Houses are the result of our desire to increase density within the urban core
of Austin.
Instead of building one single family residence on a city lot, we built two.
The lot is on a corner, which provided separate points of access. The
surrounding neighborhood context is a mixture of residential projects and city
and private development infrastructure. This infrastructure, located across
each street forming the corner, informed a courtyard design for the houses as a
way to mitigate their presence and provide a private refuge. Formally each
house is an L, opposing one another to create a perimeter boundary surrounding an
internal courtyard. The courtyard is bisected by a mixed red handmade brick
wall as it weaves through the property, providing both physical and visual
separation between each house, as well as a contrast to the smooth steel
troweled white stucco used to clad the houses. The first floors are separated,
and these opposing separations provide passage into the courtyard and
subsequent entry for each house. The second floors are joined above these
exterior passages due to zoning restrictions, however distinct separation is
achieved through framing and ceiling heights. The overall massing of the
project was conceived as a stark white square box with the middle removed. From
this box we began to carve into the mass and create overhangs and perpendicular
walls into which we inserted most of the glazing. On the street side of the
houses this both provided shade for the glazing and oriented views up and down
the streets, as opposed to across the street to the surrounding infrastructure.
In the courtyard the overhangs provide covered exterior areas, however
extensive glazing was used facing the courtyard to capture daylight, while
careful placement maintains privacy between units. There was extensive bamboo
on the property prior to construction. We harvested all that was in the
footprint of the project and created a series of privacy and shading screens
with the bamboo. These provide a delicate contrast to the massive fields of
stucco and provide dynamic shadows and shade. Smart building technology was
used throughout construction in order to reduce consumption of energy. The
siting, orientation and courtyard design result in low solar heat gain with
plenty of daylighting.
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