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Re-Open House  

Re-Open House

Austin, TX, United States

Project Featured on Mar 13, 2023
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Tree House

Re-Open House

Austin, TX, United States

Project Featured on Mar 13, 2023
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
This Central Austin house was remodeled in the spirit of the original Mid-Century Modern house, with an open plan, honest natural materials, and a direct connection to nature. A balance of natural light, simple materials, and functional flows are integrated with controlled views and atmospheric variation. Respect for the original home’s scale and stylistic origins lead to a house which is appropriate and celebrated within its neighborhood context and expressive of the owner’s personality and collections. Collaboration with the owner, who had already lived in the original home for 10 years, further rooted the design both aesthetically and within the neighborhood.

The design opens the house up by not only by unifying the common areas, but also by raising the original roof line over the kitchen, dining, and living area. The original pitched roof geometry was maintained in an effort to co-exist harmoniously with the existing gabled roof over the private zone. Through merely consolidating the service core, both public and private zones became more desirable by allowing for a completely open planned public zone with a generous ceiling height and clerestory windows on the south, west and north sides. The kitchen is seen as part of the open social space of the home, rather than part of the service core, and thus includes floor-to-ceiling windows which create connection with both the neighborhood and the back patio and yard.

Connection to the outdoors guided the material and structural treatment of the renovations. The exposed roof structure helps to define each interior function while also extending outside the exterior walls, drawing the eye to the surrounding tree canopies through the clerestory windows. The tongue and groove wood ceiling also continues out to the exterior soffits to visually dissolve the limits of enclosure. The clerestory maintains the sense of privacy from the street in the living and dining areas, while allowing for ample natural light to fill the house. Intimate patios for both public and private areas encourage the experience and function of the home to extend beyond the limits of the enclosure.

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