Lake Travis Retreat, Great House Architecture in Texas
September 17th, 2010 - Posted in Architecture
Lake Travis Retreat is beautiful stunning residential house design located in central Texas. This great house architecture design is coming from Dick Clark Architecture. The main goal of creating and designing this beautiful house design is actually coming from the owner itself that wanting an open house that has several basic function of a house which is a house that stays true to its purpose as a place where family and friends can spend precious free time enjoying one another and the beauty of the Highland Lakes setting.
This retreat house design’s primary views is to focus on interior courtyards or the lake itself with the concept was to keep the scale of the house as small as possible to get effectively maintained on details and materials. The exterior walls of this lake travis retreat was made of sandstone, were assembled through a dry-stack method, in which no mortar was used. The result is a monolithic form in which the warn tones of the stone are ever variable under the changing conditions of natural light.
The lakeside courtyard, including the trees preserved during construction, ameliorate the slope of the site. Drawing subtle influence from Japanese garden practices, the shifts in elevation are defined and integrated by areas of softscape, areas of hardscape and a linear water feature.
Lake Travis Retreat by Dick Clark Architecture
The lakeside courtyard, including the trees preserved during construction, ameliorate the slope of the site. Drawing subtle influence from Japanese garden practices, the shifts in elevation are defined and integrated by areas of softscape, areas of hardscape and a linear water feature.
