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Sky Crown Terraces

Sky Crown Terraces

By playing with solids and voids, the Sky Crown Terraces evoke the architecture of the American Southwest. A series of courtyards, each seemingly carved of a single monolith, engage the landscape by bringing nature to the center of the house and open the interior to the surroundings.
Tetra House

Tetra House

The Tetra House is a single-family residence located in South Austin. The house is designed to be inward-looking, centered around a small, intimate courtyard. Inspired by the constructivist paintings of El Lissitzky, the house is envisioned as a series of volumes and surfaces that are layered and intersecting, but never quite coinciding. This has the effect of both minimizing the presence of the house along the streetscape and creating a series of strategic vantage points within and around the house. Central to the concept is a material striation between a concrete 'plinth' and an upper story of floating wood boxes.
Riverview Gardens

Riverview Gardens

Three houses located on Austin's East Side a few blocks north of the river. The houses are lifted off the ground level to create an elevated 2-story plan centered around a partially enclosed interior courtyard.
The East Village

The East Village

A Vertical Mixed Use project located in the Revitalization District of Austin's East 11th Street. The project has earned a 3-star Green Building Rating and qualifies as one of the City of Austin's S.M.A.R.T. Housing developments. Program includes 11 retail stores and offices, 20 residential condominiums, and roof top decks accessible by all residents.
The Peninsula Residence on Lake Austin

The Peninsula Residence on Lake Austin

A lake front remodel exercising reflection, translucency, color and geometry to bring natural light into the house and specialized environmental systems to make it more ecologically sensitive.
Edgeland House

Edgeland House

The Edgeland House is a benchmark project built into the shores of the Colorado River that thoughtfully redefines the single-family house typology with its small footprint and innovative sustainable systems. Conscientiously sited on a rehabilitated brown field, the project is about healing the land and urban renewal.
Lucero

Lucero

Lucero is a 486-unit multifamily development over an expansive 9-acre site. Phase I consists of 173-units of affordable housing, seeking to set new standards for affordable housing in Texas.
Annie Residence

Annie Residence

A two-family house built in South Austin incorporating modular construction, extensive glass walls and an interior water feature.
Terrace Offices at the Backyard

Terrace Offices at the Backyard

The Terrace Offices at the Backyard exemplify the seamless integration of building and site. Adjacent to the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, the building forms echo the surrounding geography and dramatic rock outcroppings.
Backyard West

Backyard West

The Backyard is a unique development where cutting-edge technology, sophisticated work spaces, entertainment, and live music converge in a natural setting. This creative campus also sets a precedent for sustainability in the Texas Hill Country.
Cascading Creek House

Cascading Creek House

A single-family home the Texas Hill Country incorporating multiple green systems components including photovoltaics, rainwater collection and hydronic heating & cooling.
Shady Lane Creative Studios

Shady Lane Creative Studios

A four-story mixed-use development, 1141 Shady Lane is a conglomeration of three right triangles, each penetrated by light wells and organized around a courtyard surrounding an existing house and existing trees.
Two Coves Residence

Two Coves Residence

A residential project near Lake Austin.
Urban Forest - Stockholm Library

Urban Forest - Stockholm Library
East Austin Hotel

East Austin Hotel
Guggenheim Helsinki

Guggenheim Helsinki

Art Forest is our proposal for a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki Finland
E 11th St Multi-Use

E 11th St Multi-Use

A three story mixed use project in the revitalized 11th Street Corridor of Austin TX. The ground floor is divided between an art gallery and boutique retail outlet. The second floor is reserved for office tenants with residential spaces occupying the top floor.
Volente Residence

Volente Residence

The volente lake house was designed to minimize disturbance to the site while maximizing use of recycled material. The steel and glass house floats above salvaged concrete block walls & foundation of an existing house to connect with the vistas of Lake Travis.
Townes Homes

Townes Homes
DEN

DEN

An art gallery with office located within the W Hotel in downtown Austin, TX
Malinalco Retreat

Malinalco Retreat

Malinalco luxury spa resort is a project located two hours outside of Mexico City, in a valley between Nevado do Toluca and Popocatepetl, two of Mexico's highest volcanic peaks.
Monterrey Twin Towers

Monterrey Twin Towers

The Monterrey Twin Towers is among multiple projects-in-process that give testimony to our growing presence in Mexico.
Bold Ruler House

Bold Ruler House
Quihi House

Quihi House

A series of parallel rammed earth walls delineate zones of varying heights and widths, along which domestic program is distributed according to function and hierarchy. The formal gesture extends into the landscape, inviting nature through glass walls along corridors of water and vegetation.
Shore Vista Boat Dock

Shore Vista Boat Dock
Aqua Verde Residence

Aqua Verde Residence

House overlooking both Lake Austin and the Texas Hill Country. The design emphasizes views of the site by elevating the living spaces, providing a shaded exterior space beneath.
Davis SoCo Apartments

Davis SoCo Apartments
Miami Waterworks

Miami Waterworks

Conversion of an existing waterworks facility into a gateway & orientation building for the new Arts district in downtown Miami. Next to the Herzog & De Meuron designed Miami Art Museum
West Lake Hills Vista House

West Lake Hills Vista House
Fredericksburg Ranch House

Fredericksburg Ranch House
Southlawn Palms Apartments

Southlawn Palms Apartments

Southlawn Palms Apartments is an existing 11.5-acre, 51-building, 243-unit low-income multifamily housing development built in 1980 and located in the Third Ward of Houston.
Lipan House

Lipan House

This single family house is composed of two refined, minimalist stone-and-glass boxes connected by a glass bridge.
Hill Country Resort

Hill Country Resort

A resort and activity venue in the Texas Hill Country
Beverly Skyline Residence

Beverly Skyline Residence

A single-family remodel based on the notions of recycling, reuse, and the integration of built space and its environment.
Chai One HQ

Chai One HQ

An adaptive reuse of the original Schlumberger Headquarters
The Roosevelt

The Roosevelt

The Roosevelt townhouses are composed of seven radiating units, each four stories tall with individual rooftop terraces that face downtown San Antonio.
Wingspan House

Wingspan House
Enfield houses

Enfield houses

This project consists of 3 houses fronting Enfield in Austin. Each house is composed of 4 volumes which change in elevation to accommodate the zoning restriction while creating a compelling perspective. The garage and motor court are buried to minimize the scale of the homes and work the design around a beautiful oak tree in the backyard.
Arthouse Cinema in Arkansas

Arthouse Cinema in Arkansas
Ethan's View

Ethan's View

Ethan's View is the sublime tranquility of the Texas Hill Country landscape embraced by an architecture of cosmopolitan sophistication. Elegant clarity and formalist rigor unify the complex of townhouses and condominium buildings, orienting them towards the protected view down the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve to the expanse of the Texas Highland Lakes and their surrounding hills at the horizon. Steel and concrete construction steadfastly assures the silent integrity of the grid, while natural materials like stone and wood impart shelter and comfort to the residents as they behold the breathtaking vistas of raw nature unimpeded by anything but generous expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass.
East Eighth Street House

East Eighth Street House
Becoming Forest House

Becoming Forest House

Becoming Forest House, inspired by surrealist artist Rene Magritte’s “le blanc-seing”, attempts to dematerialize and disguise into the trees of a heavily wooded site. As in Magritte’s painting, which experiments with foreground-background relationships and depth perception, the house is designed to be an experimental dwelling that blends into the woods in different ways at different times of day.
Carved Cube House

Carved Cube House

This single family residence is a deconstructed cube with a rotated internal grid. The narrow three story entry axial canyon brings natural light deep into the heart of the house. Dramatic shadows cast on the interior canyon walls quietly revealing the passage of time.
Green Water Redevelopment

Green Water Redevelopment

A design for downtown Austin designed in collaboration with Foster and Partners, proposing a world class, uniquely Austin, 21st century urban neighborhood converging around two elegant spires.
Baja Spa & Resort

Baja Spa & Resort

The first phase of an 800 acre luxury spa resort in Baja California Sur. The site is one hour north of Loreto in the Bahia Concepcion facing the Cortez Inland Sea.
Salado Stonehenge House

Salado Stonehenge House

This single family home in Salado Texas is located by the river above a bluff. Load bearing limestone walls are formed by 2x2x6 monolithic blocks of locally quarried material.
Benetton Tehran

Benetton Tehran

Competition entry for a tower in Tehran
Mango Financial

Mango Financial

Mango Financial, Inc. is an innovative consumer financial services company that seeks to empower underserved customers in the U.S. to achieve their financial goals.
Nahua Tower

Nahua Tower

A proposed 34 story tower to be built in downtown Austin on Lady Bird Lake in cooperation with the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Factory People (now American Apparel)

Factory People (now American Apparel)

A unique boutique combining fashion, music, art and literature inspired by Andy Warhol's factory. Designed for a creative, multi-purpose environment in the heart of Austin's SOCO District.
Lago Vista Lake House

Lago Vista Lake House

Commissioned by a highly creative family including a painter, writer and set-designer, the lago vista residence is a vacation home which doubles as an artists' retreat.
Self-Sustaining House

Self-Sustaining House

A research project into the concept of self-sufficient buildings.
Skybridge Condominiums

Skybridge Condominiums

Skybridge is a 160,000 s.f. residential condominium in South Austin with 120 units.
Kingsland Boat Dock

Kingsland Boat Dock
Asian American Resource Center

Asian American Resource Center
Mint Trail

Mint Trail

A residential renovations currently in the design phase
Kingdom Bar

Kingdom Bar
Tarrytown place

Tarrytown place

This project is a 6 units condominium project located west of Austin. The unit vary from a one bedroom efficiency to a three bedroom unit.
Gilfillan House

Gilfillan House

Bercy Chen Studio completed the most recent renovation of Gilfillan House, which dates back to 1905 and was originally built as a two-story residential home by Austin architect Charles H. Page.
Aqueduct House

Aqueduct House
Cheongna City Tower - Korea

Cheongna City Tower - Korea

Competition proposal for an iconic observation tower in the heart of the new Cheonga City development. The design proposes a series of island parks surrounding a helical spire.
Terrace Mountain House

Terrace Mountain House

The Terrace Mountain House is situated on a picturesque slope in the West Lake Hills neighborhood of Austin with views onto the nearby downtown skyline.  Its form engages its hillside setting through a staggered composition of volumes that descend the slope under the singular sweep of an overhanging roof line.
Riviera Maya Hotel

Riviera Maya Hotel

Renovation of a 1960's beachfront hotel in Cancun
700 Rio Grande Historic Renovation

700 Rio Grande Historic Renovation
Urban Reserve

Urban Reserve

Winning entry in national design competition for one of the first sustainable housing developments in the US.
Herradura Community

Herradura Community

A proposal in Herradura to serve the senior population by creating a highly vegetated oasis in which a series of buildings are divided by natural and recreational space.
Re:Vision Dallas

Re:Vision Dallas

A research proposal investigating new strategies for developing urban communities developed as part of the Re:Vision Dallas competition.
Murphy Residence

Murphy Residence
ZeroSpace Art Museum

ZeroSpace Art Museum
Solidarity Museum - Poland

Solidarity Museum - Poland

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