Westway House / LRSTUDIO + KAD

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  • Architects: Katagiri Architecture + Design , LRSTUDIO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  290
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Collaborators: Julio de León (EU), Samantha Núñez (MEX)
  • Site Area: 1238 m2
  • Facade: Metal Cladding, Madera Cumarú, Siding de Madera Pino para Exterior
  • Flooring: Madera de Pino para exterior, Concreto Pulido, Piso Cerámico en interior, Duela de Madera en interior
  • Architect In Charge: Luis López, Kazuya Katagiri
  • City: McAllen
  • Country: United States
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Text description provided by the architects. Casa Westway is a renovation projects of a single family house built in the late 50’s in downtown of McAllen Texas. The original house wasconstructed as a single rectangular footprint with a typical south Texas two pitched roofswhich represents a very distinctive house prototype of his time in this region.

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The main idea was to break the shape of the gabled roof into several pieces by unfolding planes. 

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This gave us the chance to create cross relationship which transforms roof into façade and façade into roof, and provided interior spaces richer value of natural light and articulation.  

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Each room were linked to social area to provide a more fluent relationship between spaces and continued to exterior patio in order to extend the living room to outdoor space along with the roof system.

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This materiality of the roof seeks to create an expression that will change over time to look for an intimate dialogue with the neighboring house.

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Cite: "Westway House / LRSTUDIO + KAD" [Casa Westway / LRSTUDIO + KAD] 21 Nov 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/567408/westway-house-lrstudio> ISSN 0719-8884

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