designSTUDIO is throwing a pool party and pig roast at our shop space off S. Congress. We'll be collecting donations and selling plates of food to raise money for the Gulf Restoration Network.
RECON services (construction dumpster for the pool)
sushiBOX
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working on a new series of sculptures. these are two of the first three...
#9 (homage to HB)
2010
fir and steel (9 1/2"x 11 1/2"x 68")
ghostWALKER
2010
fir and steel (9 1/2"x 11 1/2"x 59 3/4")
A freak snowstorm made for 1 1/2" of snow and ice accumulation out in the Texas Hillcountry. The corrugated metal roofs of Deep Eddy West got a nice blanket. The subsequent run-off and dripping from each of the corrugated valleys into the galvanized gutters became a 74 foot long vernacular symphony.
One of these days we will have to film a rainstorm in these buildings. Their long metal roofed porches, clerestory windows, and butterfly roofs act as foils for the light, and the water, and the sound, and the wind of the great Texas sky. This climate responsiveness delivers a richness to the experience of the landscape as read against the simply and thoughtfully constructed spaces. The buildings are such finely tuned instruments, that there is always some form of beauty playing across their taut surfaces, as is evident from the following images taken by the owners (both of whom are artists with a keen eye for architectural detail) over the years since they moved in.
(all pics by Deep Eddy Studios)
A respectable accumulation of snow blankets the porch and bridge between the two shops.
That stuff was really coming down!
The shop building hunkers down to get through the random late February cold snap.
This is the south face of Jueri's building on a nice fall day. That porch is a great place to work on a brisk day like this one.
On a foggy day the building seems to loom up out of the field
The low raking sun of winter sunset really lights up the western side of the building.
That same raking winter light also creates a sunset that plays across the ceiling of the shop.
The butterfly roof of the shop is a great place to skywatch.
Even after a freak hailstorm, the roofscape is a wonderland.
The colours of Mara's building are a nice counterpunch to the deep blue of the sky.
The rhythm of the simple structural diagram unfolds itself across a fair portion of the immediate site
through the porches, the connecting bridge, and the way the buildings sit upon the landscape.
The large rainwater collection system (20K gallons of potable storage from 5000 s.f. of roofs), integral to the overall design and layout of the buildings upon the site, defines another visceral connection to the climate and landscape, and is coincidentally poetic in so doing.
our very own "unhappy hipster":
Thinking outside of the box, he spent his lunch sipping a dark roast wondering if he was morphing into a styrene figure. Do styrene figures shiver in a wet rain or is their fate to die as a smudge?
Thanks to deepEDDY West clients Jueri and Mara for this early morning chuckle. You never know what you'll find in your in-box.
Some old sketches from projects past...
This was a design for a sculpture studio to be built out in the hill country. The building was to nestle into a north facing slope (hence the stairs down into the entry) and reach its high clerestory windows over the studio towards the clear and even North light.
This was a design for a compact "garage" apartment to be built in West Austin. It too was to orient to the North to bathe the interiors in gorgeous light.
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