Lake House, Texas

Flowing to the Lake

Location: Dallas, Texas
Status: Complete

Our clients bought an extraordinary plot on Star Harbor Marina, Texas, with the ambition to build a lakehouse that maximises the stunning views out across the lake. 

3|10 Studio attended site for the first time in early 2019 and remotely oversaw the build during the Covid pandemic liaising directly with the Project Manager on the ground. 

The completed build is a testament to the clients rigorous attention to detail and achieves both an internal and external connection with the lake that is simple, direct and effortless. 


There are a number of ideas that were key to the development of the proposed design, these are:

• Creating a journey.
• Exploiting the fall of the site. 
• Revealing the lake slowly through glimpses on approach.
• Creating a long house for a long site. 
• Using a series of long, parallel walls running in the direction of the site to direct attention towards the water and enhance the awareness of the lake throughout the house. 
• Integrating the design of the landscaping, pool, pontoon and the house so they become inherently related, each to the other.
• Reducing awareness of cars and enhancing awareness of the house, the lake and the landscape.

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