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
Inside Corner House is a one-story, single-family residence that occupies a corner lot in one of Houston’s more pedestrian, urban neighborhoods. The domestic spaces are organized around a central courtyard – an outdoor room surrounded by glass with minimal steel frames.
Photography: Jack Mussett, Susan George
9° House was highlighted in the 2011 AIA Houston Home Tour on the weekend of October 22, 2011. The project received critical attention, including a feature article in The Houston Chronicle’s Gloss Magazine.
Exterior view at dusk. (Benjamin Hill Photography)
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
The 9° House combines the renovation of an existing, historically significant modern residence with a new 3,000 sf addition. Where the addition begins the base geometry of the house skews 9° to the west to fill the vacant southwest corner of the lot and expand the rear garden for outdoor activity. Every detail of the addition conforms to the 9° shift. The skew produces a profound optical illusion. After spending time in the addition the natural tendency for the eye is to compensate and correct the disorienting effects of the skew. Upon returning to the original wing of the house the visitor then perceives the original portion of the house to be skewed 9° in the opposite direction. Photos: Benjamin Hill Photography
Prospective home plan buyers and people interested in leading contemporary home design can get an in-depth look at Hometta’s new design delivery model. Hometta is a web-based modern home plan company offering small, sustainable home designs from internationally recognized architecture and design studios. The company is committed to making design accessible and affordable to a large cross-section of prospective homeowners. Interloop-Architecture Principal Dawn Finley is a founding partner of Hometta. A modified version of IA’s internationally acclaimed 48′ House is one of the design prototypes exhibited.
Welcome Hometta: Houston
New World Gallery, Houston, Texas
July 16, 2009 to August 2, 2009.
Welcome Hometta: San Francisco
San Francisco Living: Home Tours
September 12 & 13, 2009.
Welcome Hometta: Boston
PinkComma Gallery
October 16 to November 6, 2009
Finca Nogales is a new residence and series of gardens on a 22,000 acre private cattle ranch in northern Argentina, near Salta. The design incorporates: (1) Daytime Parking and Entry, (2) Formal Entry Court with Parking, (3) a Service Quadrant, (4) an Orchard Quadrant, (5) a Garden Quadrant, (6) a Service Structure with Staff Quarters, Drying Court, and Laundry Room, (7) a Mate Bar and Dining Hall, (8) existing Seed House, (9) existing Barn, (10) Water Tower, (11) Covered Parking, (12) existing House, (13) a Guest House, (14) a Residence for the Ranch Foreman (15) the Owner’s Summer House, (16) an additional Owner’s House with adjoined Stables and Horse Riding Pen, (17) an observation Deck to be located above the Mate bar, and (18) a water feature and site irrigation strategy.
The Reiss Residence is located in Houston, Texas on a corner lot near Rice University, in a neighborhood originally developed in the 1910’s. The property is surrounded on three sides by public streets. To the north is Sunset Boulevard a prominent residential street with a planted median. To the west is Greenbriar Avenue, a major north-south thruway. To the south is a neighborhood service alley used by local residents for access. The interior spaces of the house are designed around a private garden with a small pool. The kitchen is a double-height room with tall, glass walls facing in to the private garden.
West Elevation
48’ House is a modest single family residence in Houston, Texas designed to accommodate the changing lifestyle needs of a young professional family. The size and proportion of the house are based upon a 4′ x 8′ framing module ideal for wood and steel construction—minimizing material waste during construction. The house is sited at the rear of a standard lot that spans between a residential street (to the north/front) and a masonry sound-wall adjacent to US Interstate 59 (to the south/back), a location where the interstate is depressed approximately 18’ below natural grade. The mass of the house blocks the majority of highway sound from the front lawn making this an ideal space for outdoor activity under two massive live-oak trees. The first level contains work spaces (an outdoor covered shop, an office, storage, and a half bath). The second level contains living spaces (a kitchen, a forty-eight foot long dining and living space, two-bedrooms, and a full bath).
First featured in Dwell Magazine’s October 2007 print issue, 48’House has received national and international attention for its design innovation and economy. In 2010, it was published in a special ten-year anniversary print issue, Dwell: 100 Houses We Love, 2000-2010.
Photographer: Daniel Hennessy
Sited along the edge of one of Houston’s bayous, the White Oak Bayou Studio was commissioned by a prominent painter in Houston to house a studio workspace for production, an exhibit space, and a modest domestic residence with pool.
View of front elevation. Perforated corten steel sliding panels allow the entry and studio to be completely open to the street, or closed down in the evening for privacy