Trapezoid + Hill = Perfect Rectangle

In the Turtle Creek neighborhood, a difficult site presented itself for a significant home. Here, on a street with some traffic, the lot is a trapezoid with a steep fall to the land, and has an elegant oak tree that needed to be protected and saved. The solution to this equation was a perfect rectangle surrounded by trees. The Roman travertine façade is hung on a rain screen so it does not trap water between the waterproof concrete block structure and the travertine. This architectural approach frees the stone from ever being discolored. The pristine white exterior of this architect Lionel Morrison modern home adds to the resulting serenity of the site and purity of design. Here is another example of an important home that might never have been built if the backyard rental house ordinance had been in effect attracting an investor to build two houses on the lot.
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