Sugar Shack Residence Work Studio Recognition Contact @alterstudio Overview The Sugar Shack Residence slips between a dramatic ravine and an intimate courtyard, both defining and accommodating its adjacent circumstances. Organized linearly, interior spaces negotiate between these two powerful conditions of landscape, and embrace their very different characteristics. A cedar-clad volume is set perpendicular to the street and hovers above the landscape. The visitor enters in the middle of the house where an exterior, glass-enclosed stair penetrates the volume from a carport tucked into the hillside below. Windows direct one’s gaze strategically into the tree canopy or towards the private courtyard and align with the edges of the building, alternately sliding below the floor or above the ceiling. Similar Projects South 3rd Residence Constant Springs Residence View all projects ©Alterstudio Architecture, LLP 1801 Lavaca Street #106 Austin, Texas 78701 info@alterstudio.net 1-512-499-8007

Cuernavaca Residence Work Studio Recognition Contact @alterstudio Overview The Cuernavaca Residence is the latest installment in an evolving constructed landscape on a two-acre family compound that is shared by the client and her sister. Nestled in a wooded lot, the home forms an ensemble with an existing pool house. The latter’s board-formed concrete walls establish the material basis for the new residence, which is home to a family of five and includes two home offices. The house features a restrained vocabulary of rift sawn oak, mill finished steel, galvanized metal panels, and concrete—that alternates in orientation and pattern. Taken together, these materials create an environment rich in texture and animated by sun and shade over the course of a day. The house slips between the existing pool house and a magnificent live oak, defining discrete terrains on the property. Long views are established: east to the limestone shelf of the Colorado River; north to a rolling meadow; west to a grove of oaks and the shared pool house. A double-height porch, with an outdoor fireplace, provides an outdoor family room; a second-floor roof deck affords constant breezes and stunning views to the limestone cliffs. Aligned with these natural features, the house welcomes engagement with circumstances of this particular landscape as the owners move through their home; further, the house provides a sense of the entire property in incidental moments. Awards 2018 The Architecture MasterPrize Award - Residential 2017 American Architecture Award 2016 IIDA Excellence in Design Awards 2016 AIA Austin Design Award Similar Projects Design Office South 5th Residence View all projects ©Alterstudio Architecture, LLP 1801 Lavaca Street #106 Austin, Texas 78701 info@alterstudio.net 1-512-499-8007

Work Studio Recognition Contact @alterstudio Alterstudio Architecture Cambridge Tower 1801 Lavaca Street Suite #106 Austin, Texas 78701 Get directions General Inquiries: info@alterstudio.net 1-512-499-8007 ©Alterstudio Architecture, LLP 1801 Lavaca Street #106 Austin, Texas 78701 info@alterstudio.net 1-512-499-8007