Carraro Residence

Kyle, TX

The Alamo Cement plant, being demolished and sold for scrap, was where a 180 ft. long, 40 ft. wide, and 20 ft. tall 1920s steel-framed building was selected, disassembled and trucked to forty acres of Texas Hill Country. The existing warehouse was re-erected into three separate bays: an open garage shed, the world’s largest screened porch and a very narrow corrugated metal master suite. The buildings work with the oak trees to create two distinctive courtyards: an entry court defined by the open pavilion and a river court defined by the screened building.


publications

2007 - Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier
2005 - Spaces (Issue 15)
2002 - Geometry in Architecture: Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today
2000 - Porches and Other Outdoor Spaces
1997 - Stone Built, Contemporary American Houses
1996 - Design Book Review (Winter)
1993 - Live/Work: Working at Home, Living at Work (Nov)
1993 - Metropolitan Home (May/Jun)
1992 - Hauser (Mar)

awards

1993 - AIA Western Home Award
1992 - AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture
1991 - AIA San Antonio Design Award
1991 - Texas Society of Architects / AIA Design Award
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