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2-Feasibility Studies

Alta, Wyoming 2

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project is an exploration of putting a small house on part of a large piece of land that had been subdivided into multiple large lots.  My client owns the entire piece of land and has been strategizing the optimum way to create a few high-quality houses in the small development.  This..

Alta, Wyoming 1B

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION One of my Dallas clients bought a beautiful piece of land in Alta, Wyoming.  The east side of the site looks right at the west side of the Tetons.  We explored ways of phasing the house construction to suit a current lifestyle during which the kids were not married yet…and the client..

Lakewood 2

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION I was hired for this project by a residential real estate developer.  The charge was to create a new house on the footprint of an existing foundation…to create a marketable modern two-story house where there was once a bland post-war single-story house. This was a particularly fun jigsaw puzzle.  Usually the constraints..

Preston Hollow

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION I was hired for this project by a residential real estate developer.  The charge was to create a large house on a large site as a speculative development in a popular residential market in North Dallas.  The project was taken all the way through construction documents to a Building Permit set.  At..

Westlake

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION This home, located in a small development on former ranch land, was designed to create a series of buildings that evoke the ad hoc composition of rural properties.  The challenge was to maintain the feeling of buildings built over time, while being very deliberate in assembling the 8,000 square feet of programmed..

Lake Highlands

Gallery PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project was designed to accommodate a couple who both worked from home while raising two young children.  The needed more space and more privacy for their work.  The solution was to demolish an existing attached garage and replace it with a larger structure, while leaving the house un-touched.  The lower level..