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Sunday, December 9, 2007

Texas Home


The home above rests in Austin, Texas. The architect was Peter L. Gluck. The home was designed to be very open because through a grove of live oaks, the home over looks the dome of Texas's state capitol. The first floor is buried, and the second is free space enclosed by glass. The top floor is said to "float" amid the oaks. I really like the red exterior of the house on the top floor. I also really enjoyed how the first floor was buried. But it's not buried directly underneath the home instead it's in front of it before you come to the pool. And their is just like a hole in the ground, no fence, that you can look out from one side of the buried first floor, up to the original floor. The house is just architectured well for the young couple with no kids. However once they have a family or have guests over I can imagine that cut off being kind of dangerous.

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