architect

The client was an architect.

We started before there was a site. We helped him choose the lot, and he picked a steep one on Lake Travis. He knew what he wanted on it: a bar building- long, narrow, held close to the cliff edge so the whole length of the house faces the water.

Several iterations later the plan settled into two floors. Living and entertaining on the ground, where the house opens to the terrace and the view. Private rooms above.

We buried the garage in the hillside and let it become its own room- outside the main building envelope, under the terrace, reached on its own.

Behind the house the ground steps down in terraces to a tram, and the tram takes you the rest of the way to a boat dock.