2105 Woodmont is a 5,305 square foot new residence in west Austin. The home’s design consists of a master bedroom, two bedrooms for the children, a play area for the children, a study which doubles as a fourth bedroom, a semidetached garage, a detached workshop with a guest apartment above, and a covered outdoor kitchen. The challenge with this project was to create a design that would mediate the husbands modern design taste with his wife’s traditional design taste. In the initial sketches of the house I wanted the design of the home to evoke the feeling of a lantern. The sketch described a continuous band of windows just below the roofline to create the effect of a floating roof. The exterior of the home is clad in cut limestone and stucco. The roof is a standing seam metal roof with exposed wood rafters below.
