007 House
Architecture Residential Austin, Texas, United States Of America
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Description
Tucked away on an urban lot in a dense, quintessentially Austin neighborhood, 007 borrows the spirit of International Style fused with the practice of A Pattern Language to update the modern lifestyle.
Utilizing the corner lot, separation was created between pedestrian and vehicular access while a cascading of roofs steps the house back from the street, creating hierarchy for the pedestrian experience. Bridging horizontal rooflines keep a personal scale to the entrance, spanning across the architectural (and structural) two-story feature screen.
The floor plan connects the indoors to positive outdoor spaces through windows that not only allow comfortable light to wash in, but also frame perspective in this highly-urban environment. Landscaping serves as privacy buffer and completes the indoor-outdoor connection.
A centralized entry organizes the privacy levels between south-facing public areas and north side private rooms. The patterns reveal a sophisticated, yet casual concept that engages with nature in every room.
Questions and Answers
What were the solutions?
a. Utilizing the long side of the corner lot, a centralized entry allow us to separate the pedestrian and vehicular access. This naturally arranges the privacy levels down the middle of the house - with your south facing “public" areas to one side and on the other, the north side “private" rooms.
b. The floor plan connects the indoor areas to the outdoor spaces through strategically placed floor-to-ceiling doors and windows located in the more “public” rooms. We’ve then been able to use the landscaping beyond as the privacy buffer to help complete the indoor-outdoor connection.
c. Carefully placed windows throughout the home not only allow comfortable, natural light to wash in from all sides, but also frame the perspective of the homeowner outward. This visually connects them to this highly urban neighborhood in some areas, while we deliberately break that contact to their direct neighbors in the more private areas.
What were the key challenges?
a. How do you create hierarchy to the pedestrian entry over the vehicular on such a tight urban lot?
b. How can we connect the homeowner to the landscape while keeping privacy?
c. How can we allow for natural light to wash all interior spaces and still break the visual connectivity to their neighbors?
Details
| Project size | 2782 ft2 |
| Site size | 6997 ft2 |
| Completion date | 2017 |
| Building levels | 2 |
Project team
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Katie Kent | |
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Dick Clark + Associates | architect + interiors |