Architects:Murray Legge Architecture

Area :2000 ft²

Year :2017

Photographs :Andrea Calo

Design Team : Murray Legge, Travis Avery, Travis Cook, Ben Kaplowitz

Architect In Charge : Murray Legge

City : Austin

Country : United States

Sited on a beautifully wooded property on the western slopes of Barton Hills, this renovation, and expansion of an existing split-level house engages the land by both carving into rising and out of the ground.

A new master suite nestles half-buried into the ground alongside a stand of oak and elm trees in the center of the property. From the interior of the master bedroom, a wall of expansive glazing frames an immersive view of the trees and landscape. Tapered parallel strand columns elegantly support custom steel window frames and blend in with the background field of dark tree trunks. From the exterior, the window wall reflects the surrounding vegetation and new pool at the opposite end of the property.