Yoga Studio & Garden is featured in the 2014 RDA architecture tour, Additionally.
Principals: Dawn Finley & Mark Wamble. Design Team: Eric Hughes, Mark Watabe. Specialty Fabrication: Kyle Henricks. Contractor: Royston Technologies. Structural Engineer: Brad Dougherty. Photography: Hester+Hardaway
Yoga Studio and Garden is sited behind an existing 1920’s “Airplane” style bungalow in Houston, Texas. The ground floor below the studio is a naturally ventilated space with sliding glass doors that open onto a garden with a pool. It serves as both a garage and at times a space for entertaining. The second level contains an open yoga studio that doubles as a guest room. A single piece of cabinetry divides the room into two zones. Incorporated into the cabinet panels are a Murphy bed, desk, closets, sliding glass doors and compact bathroom fixtures. Privacy and sunlight are filtered through an exterior hardwood screen. The screen produces different densities and “noise” patterns as it wraps the building and exterior stair. A series of computed, randomized scripts were written to develop the screen’s varied pattern.
Photographer: Paul Hester, Hester+Hardaway
Nasher Sculpture Center is a 60,000 SF structure and a 1.9 acre Garden designed to showcase the sculpture collection of Ray and Patsy Nasher. The Center is located in Downtown Dallas across from the Dallas Museum of Fine Art. Renzo Piano Building Workshop is the lead design consultant, Peter Walker and Partners is the Landscape Architect and Ove Arup & Partners is lead engineers. Interloop Architecture was hired by Renzo Piano’s office to administer the design of the building and garden. Interloop Architecture was also hired to coordinate between the owner and the other consultants all matters relating to the execution of the design, as well as produce Construction Documents for portions of the construction including Finish Millwork, Ornamental Gates, Stone details, a 2,500 SF Auditorium, and various other finish details associated with the project.
Photographer: Tim Hursley ©2003
Plug-On is the first in a series of product prototypes intended for residential structures. It was fabricated and assembled in Houston, then delivered and installed onto an existing modest one-story ranch style house in Richardson, Texas. The client was interested in an addition that would complement the existing language of the house and accommodate a sitting area to redirect the space of the master bedroom to the lush trees in the rear lawn. Our directive was to maximize the qualitative effect of the square footage. Plug-on is an eight-foot cube, fabricated entirely of stainless steel, glass and wood. It is structured as a cantilever using a concrete counterweight and steel beam fulcrum underneath the bedroom floor.
The Houston Products Laboratory was selected by the Heinz Architectural Center as one of eight projects to be exhibited in Aluminum in Contemporary Architecture, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Interloop Architecture designed and fabricated a sixteen foot long table to display drawings, diagrams, models, and renderings. The table is a steel powder-coated frame that supports nine custom milled aluminum plate tops, clear anodized and black anodized. The exhibit ran November 2000 through February 2001 in association with the exhibition Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets.