Cuernavaca Residence Austin, Texas Residence, US Residential Property Photos, Architecture
Cuernavaca Residence in Austin
Contemporary Home in Texas, USA ? design by alterstudio architecture LLP
Apr 12, 2017
Cuernavaca Residence in Austin, Texas
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Design: alterstudio architecture LLP
Cuernavaca Residence in Austin, Texas
The Cuernavaca Residence is the latest installment in an evolving constructed landscape on a two-acre family compound that is shared by the client and her sister.
Nestled in a wooded lot, the home forms an ensemble with an existing pool house. The latter?s board-formed concrete walls establish the material basis for the new residence, which is home to a family of five and includes two home offices.
The house features a restrained vocabulary of rift-sawn oak, mill finished steel, galvanized metal panels, and concrete that alternates in orientation (between vertical and horizontal) and pattern (among board-formed, sand blasted, and bush-hammered). Taken together, these materials create an environment rich in texture and animated by sun and shade over the course of a day.

The house slips between the existing pool house and a magnificent live oak, defining discrete terrains on white oak ceiling defines the more intimate spaces within the property. Long views are established: east to the limestone shelf of the Colorado River; north to a rolling meadow; west to a grove of oaks and the shared pool house.

A 22-foot tall porch, with an...