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Austin’s Zilker neighborhood is a fringe urban district where downtown intensity meets a landscape of small, single-family lots. In this context, the pressures of densification often result in houses that are oversized and featureless. These builds, pushed to their legal maximums and clad in materials such as white and stark stucco, often feel out of sync with their older, charming, surroundings. The Zilker Park House proposes a more sensitive alternative through measured scale and a tactile material palette. Leonid Furmansky The design prioritizes its relationship to the streetscape through modulated massing. Rather than presenting a monolithic street wall, the facade is a composition of rectilinear forms that shift to break do... More