3-edge house / FAR + DANG

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Description submitted by the project team. The report is for a 2,300-square-foot residence within an unusual triangular lot, located in an urban Dallas neighborhood. The site is formed by two streets that converge and is further shaped by setbacks, resulting in a triangular buildable area. The architectural strategy involved creating an L-shaped house with two wings, one for the living space and the other for the sleeping spaces. The joint where the two wings meet became the entrance and vestibule. The triangular intervention is completed with a wooden fence that, together with the L-shaped configuration, composes an interior patio that accommodates a swimming pool and an exterior living space.

A minimal black and white color scheme is used, with multi-textured black leather wrapping the exterior and soft white materials adorning the interior. The dark ribbed metal siding provides a consistent mass, with the black-stained wood fence connecting the two ends of the residence.

While the exterior form is clean and taut, and the white plastered interior walls and concrete floors are minimal and controlled, the enclosed courtyard provides a dynamic contrast to the built form. The outdoor spaces – which extend from the living space through a set of 4-pane, 16-foot sliding glass – are adorned with stone pavers, multi-scale greenery and a water feature, all of which give texture and provides the organic, always. changing the scene due to the different shape that the house itself is. Thus the play of contrasts between the house and the “garden” is elevated.

The bold yet subtle single-story residence respects the scale of the immediate context, and the pitched roof corresponds to the neighbors’ existing roof lines. The pointed end of the living space anchors the building to the point on the triangular lot where two streets converge. Using minimal superfluous gestures – outside of slight angles that act to accommodate setbacks and define the edges between interior and exterior space – the house is translated into an abstract project that is part architecture, part sculpture, sitting silently within its surroundings.