Casa di Luce in Dallas, Texas by Morrison Dilworth + Walls

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Casa di Luce is a single-family house located in the Turtle Creek section of Dallas and comprises 3,226 air-conditioned square feet on two levels. The house is constructed on an irregularly-shaped, 8,075 square foot site with significant topography.

The size and shape of the site, as well as the presence of grand oak tree, presented challenges that greatly influenced the design of the house and its surroundings.

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• Architects: Morrison Dilworth + Walls
• Project: Casa di Luce
• Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
• Software used: AutoCAD, SketchUp

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The owners wanted a house from which they could work, entertain friends and family and accommodate overnight guests. They also gravitated toward a courtyard home due to their inherent indoor-outdoor relationships and their ability to expand the useable living space.

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

We accommodated their desires by creating a house that, while essentially blind from the street, focuses on and expands into an intimate, urban courtyard. The communication between the indoors and outdoors is enhanced through the use of very large sliding glass doors that can be fully concealed when opened. With the doors fully open and retracted, the indoor living space and the courtyard truly become one.

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

The principal interior materials consist of concrete floors on the ground level and wood floors on the second level, painted drywall walls and ceilings and statuary white marble countertops. The exterior is rendered in exposed, cast-in-place concrete, hard-troweled stucco and a rain screen of Roman travertine.

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

Image Courtesy © Morrison Dilworth + Walls

Tags: Texas, USA

Categories: Autocad, House, Residential, SketchUp

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