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Hill Country Bunk House
Hill Country Bunk House
Hunt, TX, United States
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Other Projects by Ford, Powell & Carson, Architects & Planners, Inc.
Hill Country Bunk House
Hunt, TX, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
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The Comanche Creek Ranch Bunkhouse near Hunt, Texas is the ranch’s third structure designed by the same architects. The setting for all three structures is a crescent shaped ridge embracing a bowl-like valley filled with oak trees. The ranch lies at the heart of the most scenic part of the Texas hill country and is a cherished family retreat. As the family has grown, the ranch’s accommodations have too.
The bunkhouse is linked to a smaller guest house by a courtyard paved with limestone from the ranch. While simple in form and austere in detail, the bunkhouse is carefully sited to buttress the end of the ridge, to provide views under the tree canopy toward a pond used for swimming, and from the long upper level porch, views above the tree line of a more distant lake. The porch widens at its southern end to provide ample room for viewing winter sunsets in front of a fire, to scoop prevailing southeast summer breezes down the length of the porch, and as a frame for a panoramic view of the horizon.
A massive chimney anchors the porch to the sloping site and is part of its structural support. All of the porch’s steel and wood structure is expressed and simply detailed like the rural hill country buildings it emulates. Folding doors on the porches open the house to breezes. The ground floor porch, paralleling communal grandchildren’s bunkrooms, is play space and assembly area for expeditions to the pond.
The bunkhouse is linked to a smaller guest house by a courtyard paved with limestone from the ranch. While simple in form and austere in detail, the bunkhouse is carefully sited to buttress the end of the ridge, to provide views under the tree canopy toward a pond used for swimming, and from the long upper level porch, views above the tree line of a more distant lake. The porch widens at its southern end to provide ample room for viewing winter sunsets in front of a fire, to scoop prevailing southeast summer breezes down the length of the porch, and as a frame for a panoramic view of the horizon.
A massive chimney anchors the porch to the sloping site and is part of its structural support. All of the porch’s steel and wood structure is expressed and simply detailed like the rural hill country buildings it emulates. Folding doors on the porches open the house to breezes. The ground floor porch, paralleling communal grandchildren’s bunkrooms, is play space and assembly area for expeditions to the pond.
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