Grover Residence, Austin, Texas
Posted
05/6/2011
Construction on this 2,400-square-foot designbuild project began
after the completion of a large lot subdivision with the city of
Austin, and required all new utilities during construction.
In addition to a spatially expansive interior, design-builder
Universal Joint Design Associates incorporated both north and south
facing 400-squarefoot roof decks, 800 square feet of covered
outdoor living space on the ground floor and two huge cantilevered
master bedroom window spaces.
In front, there is a street-facing covered front porch off the
master bedroom and a sculptural storage room on the ground floor
that the clients anointed, "il Ferro Tartaruga," or the steel
turtle, which is outfitted for a future Jacuzzi. The space is a
built experiment of the firm's research into parametric modeling,
planarization routines and digital fabrication. All of the steel
was modeled in 3-D, allowing it to be all shop cut with no in-field
cuts. Alamo Iron Works Inc. supplied the steel for the project,
which was delivered to the site pre-cut based on the take-off from
the digital model.
A super minimalist approach leveraged the structural engineering
into creating extraordinary outdoor spaces, while a compact plan
allows the indoors to naturally brush up against the building
envelope and outside spaces.
Design-builder: Universal Joint Design Associates, Austin
Structural steel: Alamo Iron Works Inc., San Antonio,
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