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The Wolfe Den

The Wolfe Den by MJ Neal Architects

2,400 sq ft
Austin, TX

Single family dwelling for a young professional couple. The site is a small 47′ by 125′ rectilinear in-fill lot situated within a twenty minute walk of downtown.

The house consists of two parts, a simple rectangle along one side of the lot and an adjacent courtyard. This configuration provides privacy from the street while allowing the interior living areas to open onto decks and garden. An overhang with lattice provides the transition to the garden and protection from the west sun.

The house, although conventionally framed, used green methodology and materials: Slab on grade with diamond ground finish. Bio-base (soy) blow-in insulation for the exterior wall and roof. Recycled denim insulation on the interior walls. Recycled rubber flooring on the upper level. Formaldehyde-free plywood. Low-voc paint. Ipe hard-wood from sustainably managed forests. Locally manufactured brick. Fluorescent and low voltage lighting. Geothermal HVAC system. The house is also photo-voltaic ready for when budget allows.

White Washing

New York Street Advertising Takeover

OlsenBeal Construction

I made a site visit today to OlsenBeal. They are about 85% complete with the steel erection, the rest of the steel is sitting in the yard waiting to be installed. The remaining pieces are mostly the cantilevered projections and hanging steel. It is pretty cool to see that the steel already has a nice patina to it, which will only get more rich with time. Hopefully next week the wood infill framing will begin.

Day Dreaming

I had a lot of ideas bouncing around in my head today and it was driving me crazy so I pulled out the fodder and a cheap pencil and started drawing whatever came to my mind. What emerged was some kind of folded architecture that begins to reveal and expose itself. It moves along the landscape and in a moment jumps up and screams at you.

Young Living World Headquarters

Here is some of the artwork that we did for a recent job that we were awarded. We competed against MHTN, EDA, and Beecher Walker Architects for the project. We went all out to try to get this job and it paid off. It has been fun to be apart of the project team and to do much of the design work myself. My major contributions were the amphitheater and the site design; although I was involved with the collaborative design process for the lobby/atrium. It has also been a unique experience to be the one incharge of putting together our proposal information and documentation; as well as play a major role in the interview process (and no I didn't just run the powerpoint)! I presented the topics of design integrity, inspiring work environments, and sustainabilty approaches to the project. I am really looking forward to moving forward with this project.

American House 08

This is a very interesting take on the "glass house". It is quit amazing how the anamorphic forms delineate, articulate and activate the space. So clean yet so full of energy.

http://www.massiearchitecture.com/