Native studio Miró Rivera Architects clad the River Hills lakefront residence in weather-resistant metal, complemented by a fragile two-story dock and visitor home.
Completed on a Colorado River reservoir, the complicated sits on a seven-acre lot that slopes gently from a berm and is shaded by native pecan and bald cypress bushes.
“The River Hills Residence design embodies the relaxed ethos of Austin,” the Miró Rivera Architects staff instructed Dezeen.
“Whereas the house options spectacular options reminiscent of floor-to-ceiling glass partitions, there’s an informality to the design mirrored in the usage of easy supplies and playful particulars. The intention was to create a lakeside retreat that invitations nature into the house, and encourages occupants to attach with the outside.”
The development was designed to attach instantly and not directly with the pure setting via gravel paths connecting the winged principal home, zero-edge pool, visitor cabin and boat dock.
Set beneath the tree cover, the 660-square-foot principal home is partially embedded within the berm and arranged in a backward C-shape round a two-wing courtyard. A central glass quantity opens the middle of the plan to the lake.
The south wing incorporates 4 floor flooring bedrooms and a staircase resulting in the personal, master bedroom, whereas the north wing homes utility areas and the storage.
One wing incorporates utility areas and storage; the opposite wing incorporates personal bedrooms and a master bedroom. These personal and utilitarian packages are related via the general public residing areas, which open to the panorama with glass partitions and huge sliding doorways.
The 92-square-meter nice room serves because the centerpiece of the residence with a sculptural limestone fire and two partitions of floor-to-ceiling glass and gives views from each the residing and diving areas to the expansive veranda that stretches alongside the east aspect of the home.
The inside of the primary residence options polished concrete and reclaimed longleaf pine flooring, blackened metal shelving and a palette of grey leather-based, wealthy walnut and darkish basalt.
The 1,300-square-foot (120-square-meter) visitor cabin “was conceived as a sculpted quantity whose sliding glass partitions invite the lake setting inside.”
The bed room and personal toilet are separated from the general public areas by a wine cellar, and friends can collect and entertain within the outside kitchen shaded by a pecan tree.
Each the primary residence and cabin are outfitted with weather-resistant metal – from vertical cladding panels to particulars reminiscent of balustrades, chimneys and counters – with handled ash fixtures and reclaimed longleaf pine soffits to enrich the tone orange of oxidized steel.
A path from the cabin results in a lightweight dock that tries to make use of the minimal variety of components attainable. The triangular frames type a W-shaped construction round a 1,200-square-foot (112-square-meter) two-story dock.
“At some extent on the floor of the water, the triangular frames that assist the decks and roof create the sensation that the dock is balanced 'like this,'” the staff stated. “On the higher stage, the deck and roof body the wooded cliffs throughout the lake whereas catching the breeze and offering shade.”
Steps lead all the way down to the 2 boat slips, whereas an open steel staircase ascends to the lounge space which has a diving gate the place residents can leap into the shallow waters.
Beforehand, Miró Rivera Architects organized a sequence of weather-resistant metal plates to type the partitions of a public restroom on Austin's Woman Chicken Lake Hike and Bike Path. The staff additionally envisioned a floating metropolis in Jordan's Useless Sea as a memorial to those that died from the coronavirus.
Images is by Casey Dunn, Bud Franck, Sergio Reza and Paul Finkel | Piston design.
Venture credit:
Design Crew: Miró Rivera Architects, Juan Miró, Miguel Rivera, Ken Jones, Brooks Cavender, Taylor Odell
Basic contractor: Traditional Builders, Dalgleish Constructing Firm
Structural Engineer: Collaborative Structure Engineers
MEP engineer: Bay & Associates
Lighting: ArcLight design
Panorama: Consulting in Environmental Research
Furnishings and ornamental lighting: Collected design studio