New York Firm, Peter Gluck and Partners Architects concentrates primarily on residential and institutional projects that are characterized as new-age modernism. The Floating Box House, located in Austin Texas, is designed true to the nature of its mythic name. This modern residential work of architecture and contemporary interior design relies on the composition of forms that showcase blocks of space and areas absent of space.
Although the home’s architecture may initially be viewed as a stark contrast to its location on a field of live oak trees, the home is designed to integrate within its environment. Certain portions of home were specifically built below grade, as to not mess with the existing rural landscape. The floating box’s strategically placed windows allow for views outside to nature from the privately confined rooms of the upper level. In addition to providing expansive views outward from the home, the completely open ground level gives this portion of the home a spatial transparency to the environment.
The actual floating box is clad in a vibrant mahogany veneer that sits atop a glass-enclosed ground level. Even below the glass level is a basement level that is partially revealed in some areas and covered with landscape in others. There is a driveway that leads to the lower layer and steps that lead from the other side of the basement level to the pool terrace.
A massive steel staircase penetrates through all levels of the home.
From this office room, one can get a glimpse directly into the pool outside.
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