Scenic Beautiful Lake House by Dick Clark Architecture


This beautiful stunning residential house design news is a modern Lake Travis Retreat located in central Texas was designed by Dick Clark Architecture. The main idea of this house is how to build a wonderful home sweet home to be a great place to accommodate a family as it grows, and play host to friends and extended family. That’s way the Dick Architecture involved the family including their children together to implement their idea to be a great house as they want. Dick Clark Architecture advised their clients to keep the scale of the house as small as possible to get effectively maintained on details and materials, so you don’t need extra time to get your house to be clean up and you can get more time relaxing.

As this retreat house design’s primary views is to focus on interior courtyards or the lake itself, the lake travis house has copper clad pavilion with transparent walls facing south toward the neighborhood and north toward the courtyard and lake which gives a beautiful view and brings relaxation. Exterior walls of this house was made of sandstone, were assembled through a drystack method which means no mortar has been used. The result is a monolithic form in which the warn tones of the stone are ever variable under the changing conditions of natural light. Halili limestone is used continuously inside as the surface material for the pool courtyard as well as inside the house.

The bedrooms are situated in the long wing to the west, while more social activities take place in the courtyards or in the kitchen and other living spaces in the east wing of the house. The house has two courtyards which become one continuous space; its perfect for parties and the most final water feature this house a large Jacuzzi which fits up to 12 people while together enjoying scenic view.


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