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The windows throughout Texas Hill are Loewen, which is the first major North American window and door

The Fourth Wall The term "fourth wall" signifies the boundary between the fictional and the real. Ori

All of the rooms in the house orient toward the open and primarily glass side of the home facing sout

Given the wet lands that encompass the property, Texas Hill had to be located quite close to the coun

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American wood frame construction can be viewed as geodetic design, such that exterior surface functio

A base skeletal structure of the roof, walls, and support columns is the central component of the Min

Thinking Globally Acting Locally Minka (民家), literally “house of the people”, is a category of tradit

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American Skin and Bones Geodetic design is a method in which structure and skin function independentl

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The primary roofing and siding material for the project was selected for its recycled content, durabi

Synthesis The design of Texas Hill consciously integrates oppositions: of Eastern and Western traditi

The Natural The form of the house directly responds to its site conditions and orientation. While the

Although the building’s engineered structure establishes its unique expressiveness, its skin suppress

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Texas Hill plays the same game. Its perfectly symmetrical fa?ade offers a readily discernable object,

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The front and back “porches” of the Texas Hill house frame the entirety of those elevations, creating

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