(PDF) Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design Android

2. (PDF) Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design Android

4. Description El Paso, Texas The sparkling remnants of the abandoned quartz mine became the inspiration for the massing of the new house: A modernist white lime stucco rectangle balancing atop and perpendicular to a rectangular building rendered in a rubble style that’s commonly seen around the city. San Antonio, Texas “This is a house with a lot of history,� says San Antonio- based architect Tobin Smith. And, it’s not afraid to show it. The pink brick and Saltillo tile residence is a singular example of a house designed by O’Neil Ford that still is essentially in its original condition. Weatherford, Texas “We wanted to be simple and direct,� says project architect Brian Comeaux, “and to use the existing five-bedroom ranch house as the anchor in a compound.� Austin, Texas The neighborhood’s Bohemian past informed architect Paul Lamb’s intuition about what the house could feel like—casual, imaginative, and a place where life is lived to the fullest. “The site is powerful,� says architect Paul Lamb. “Materials can be robust and we have room to breathe.� Marfa, Texas Architect Michael Morrow wondered how to embrace the sky, which was what had attracted the peripatetic client to Marfa in the first place. “It dawned on me,� says Morrow, “to put light boxes on the roof so that the house would have views of the sky and also would have light inside.�

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