9th Street House in Austin by Tom Hurt Architecture

Architects: Tom Hurt Architecture
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Year: 2013
Area: 3,500 sqft / 325 sqm
Photo courtesy: Ryan Farnau & Cody Pierce
Description:

Our customer’s grandma had obtained this house in the 1940s, revamped it herself into a quadraplex, and leased it for money amid troublesome financial times of the 1940s. Our customer and his wife drew nearer us to make it a cutting edge family home for themselves.

Due to the family’s history, saving however much of the old house as could be expected was especially significant, and how we presented new components and materials would be meaningful of a house adjusting to one family more than a few eras — a special and esteemed undertaking for us. Our methodology on the inside developed into a push to uncover the more established materials by comparing them with new components, for example, a long, space-sorting out bureau “spine” — all inside of a genuinely controlled however changed sense of taste of wood and white materials.

On the outside, we needed to be clear that our thin tower expansion was new, however that it was likewise “sewed” formally to the old house — for progression for the undertaking and for the impression of scale from the road and neighbours.