Crescent House
DALLAS, TEXAS | 10,000 SQFT | COMPLETED IN 2018
Crescent House expands upon the footprint of the original house to save existing trees and topographic features. Conceived as three narrow, stone and wood buildings, connected by two double-height glass infill spaces (entry hall and kitchen), the house primarily serves to focus on the views and vistas to physical connections between the occupied spaces and the site.
Deep, zinc paneled roof overhangs shelter a series of exterior porches and balconies.
Shell stone and stained wood exterior materials helps subsume the home to the larger site, while bringing into focus the trees and their changing seasonal color, texture, and dappled light.
A muted pallet of interior finishes helps to blend the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces. Clay plaster and bleached white oak paneling are utilized at various wall and ceiling surfaces to expand the visual field across both levels of the house.
Sympathetic to the sensorial qualities of the landscape, comfortable furniture, bespoke rugs and fittings, and cherished art, all help to define Crescent House, even as it demurs to the larger site that is healed back with a native woodland mix of flora, more closely aligned with the adjacent riparian corridor of Turtle Creek.