Design Assist

Thrasher Works recently had the opportunity to put our design chops to the test for a local development: The Villas, a small group of custom built homes located on the hill overlooking the historic Belmont Hotel and skyline of downtown Dallas.   

I was brought in to assist in the tweaking of a design which had been presented to the design review board.  It is a three story, 2-unit condo set on two lots.  Unfortunately, while all the usual components of a contemporary design were present, the facade couldn't mask the fact that it was an awkwardly proportioned box which was out of scale to the neighborhood and severely lacking in a coherent facade organization.

After a few attempts to save the design, we all came to the same conclusion: one must start from scratch.  Of course, I won't show you where we started from, but what do you think of how it turned out?