Balcones House
- Type
- Residential
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Year
- 2009
- Builder
- Woodeye Construction, Enabler,
- Pollen Architecture & Design, Juniper Lesak,
- Clark Hodgkins, and Rye Meyer
- Photography
- Casey Dunn, Patrick Wong, Bill Salens, Whit Preston, Mark Seelen
- Recognition
- AIA Austin Honor Award
- 5-Star Rating, Austin Energy Green Building
- Texas Made Texas Modern, Helen Thompson
- Design Within Reach Catalog April 2018
- Austin Home 2018
- ArchDaily 2017
- Dwell October 2012
- Texas Architect Nov/Dec 2012
- Tribeza 2012
- Dwell 2013
Balcones House is a reinterpretation of a Case Study era house that existed on the site. We worked from the original site plan, with the house perched on a rock retaining wall, within the stepped limestone cliffs of the Balcones fault. The house is two-sided; one side looks downhill into treetops, and one looks uphill into a rock garden tucked between house and hill. South-facing rooms are lined in straight-grained pine accentuating the warm light entering the room. Rooms looking north have a skim-coat plaster, for a cool diffuse light quality. The two come together in the large family room, with a clerestory window at the joint. The butterfly roof at the back of the house collects rainwater stored downhill in a cistern.
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