Austin’s “Caddy Shack” hovers over difficult terrain
A house for a former skilled golfer overlooking Austin, Texas“Caddy Shack” by Olson Kundig gracefully navigate the constraints of its difficult website. From the principle hilltop entrance, the panorama descends virtually instantly, remodeling from a suburban neighborhood to a steep, rocky ravine. Delighting on this state, the Home floats above rugged terrain to seize spectacular views of the encompassing panorama and the Austin skyline past.
‘The guts of this undertaking is the shopper. He was capable of look past a difficult website and see that we had a possibility to do one thing extraordinary. That sense of journey and risk-taking actually knowledgeable the spirit of the house. We managed to very surgically insert the home into the ravine, leaving the panorama in its pure state as a lot as attainable.‘ Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, Principal Components Design.
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pushing acquainted supplies and structure to the acute
Within the public, street-facing portion of the “Caddy Shack,” an prolonged low profile bridges the panorama, framing the hillside under its central quantity. The rusted metal siding harmonizes with the impartial colours of the encompassing brush and rocks and permits the home to stability the twin impressions of energy and lightness.
To echo this expression, the crew at Olson Kundig made approach for a storage punctuated by clerestory home windows that seize pure mild. Inside, a workstation supplies the client with devoted area to tune their golf equipment.
A metal walkway and customized blue-painted entrance door open to a beneficiant most important residing area that contains a full-height window wall overlooking the ravine. A operated by hand wheel permits the wall to partially decrease and turns into a balustrade, with uncovered counterweights celebrating this kinetic factor. Unifying the hooked up kitchen and eating room is a customized mild fixture that illuminates and enlivens on the similar time.
The “Caddy Shack” barely touches the bottom to maintain the panorama as intact as attainable
All through, wood flooring and ceilings are complemented by blackened metal accents, selling a heat and comfy inside. This atmosphere simply transitions exterior, the place a beneficiant terrace with pool and scorching tub greets the house owners. A thick clear acrylic panel on the far finish of the pool creates extra views of the water.
Moreover, an adjoining cantilevered wing homes a powder room and workplace, in addition to a customized bent-and-hemmed metal staircase with perforated panels. This therapy is repeated within the customized built-ins within the powder room and examine, together with a bent metal sink and vainness, trophy case and desk. 
providing expansive views from non-public suites
And at last, a foyer and master bedroom simply past the expansive views and connects to a slender metal walkway that spans the ravine, offering a singular visible expertise. Beneath the residence, a visitor room takes benefit of the empty quantity between the home and the hill, hanging suspended from above. Lastly, extra visitor areas on the uppermost stage provide views over the master bedroom’s roof to town.
“The Caddy Shack pushes acquainted supplies and methods to extremes—the branched wings, the cantilever, the sunshine contact of the bottom. This undertaking assessments our analysis and improvement efforts by exploring these outer limits.” concludes Tom Kundig.
