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RigUp Headquarters in Austin by Matt Fajkus Architecture

The new RigUp headquarters fills an entire floor of a downtown Austin skyscraper. From the elevator lobby, a large and linear core clad in white oak houses the main functions of the space including telephone booths, kitchenettes, restrooms, and seats for conversations and small gatherings.

Filtered Frame Dock by Matt Fajkus Architecture

The Filtered Frame Dock is a structure that negotiates between the realms of land, water, and sky by framing one’s experience and understanding of the natural environment, above, along, and in the water.

Control/Shift House by Matt Fajkus Architecture

The Control/Shift House is perched on the high side of the site which takes advantage of the view to the southeast. A gradual descending path navigates the change in terrain from the street to the entry of the house.

Hewn House in Texas / Matt Fajkus Architecture

The basis of the Hewn House design starts with a cabin’s simple form and materiality: a gable roof, a wood-clad body, a prominent fireplace that acts as the hearth, and integrated indoor-outdoor spaces.

Mullet House / Matt Fajkus Architecture

A remodel of an existing 1938 bungalow in an historic central Austin neighborhood, the design aims to preserve the character of the context with a humble front facade, while unfolding and transforming in the back to accommodate small and large social gatherings.

Central Austin House Remodeled in the Spirit of the Original Mid-Century House

A balance of natural light, simple materials, and flows, are integrated with controlled views and atmospheric variation. This Central Austin house was remodeled in the spirit of the original Mid-Century Modern house, with an open plan, honest natural materials, and a direct connection to nature.

Corrugated Metal Clads Rio Vista Residence

The residence is composed of three rectilinear masses varying in size and tone; each clad in a distinct corrugated metal siding with a subtle change of finish. From the street the residence appears to rest on an island which is accessed only by a bridge.

Royal Crest Residence / Domiteaux+Baggett Architects

Royal Crest Residence was designed for a rambunctious family of five. The family wanted all the typical things families want in a home, open kitchen and living room, mudroom, playroom and large covered outdoor space.

Bonita Residence / Domiteaux + Baggett Architects

Bonita Residence is a small house for a couple that love to entertain and have fun. The couple wanted an industrial, loft look. We searched for an old building to reassemble on the site but the long and narrow site conditions narrowed the search. Instead we used old materials to repurpose in the house, including materials from the dilapidated house and barn that existed on the site.

North Dallas House by Bentley Tibbs Architect

Taking cues from the original 1-acre site and existing live oak trees, this 8,500 square foot North Dallas house with a traditional "H" layout is very solid, and in some ways, what you expect. While the design is punctuated with surprises like an interior courtyard and visual sight lines in unexpected places, rooms are generally where they are supposed to be.

Ashby Residence in Austin, Texas / Matt Fajkus Architecture

The Ashby Residence is derived from the stereotomic operation of subtracting from and adding to a solid volume to enable specific programmatic relationships and daylight conditions. Sited on a typical 50’x150’ single-family residential lot in Austin, Texas, the design questions the standard house massing and arrangement by stretching along the length of the lot.

Interlock House by Matt Fajkus Architecture

Located on a small triangular lot near Bull Creek in Austin, this house addition was required to comply with complex ordinance regulations which drastically constrain the possibility to add area to an 800 square-foot house originally built in the 1950’s.

Home Office Addition: Creekbluff Studio by Matt Fajkus Architecture

The home office addition not only complements the existing house and balances the dynamic West Austin lot, but also provides a newly framed portal to the creek and its rich landscape beyond.

Autohaus Residence and Car Collectors’ Garage in Central Texas

The Autohaus is a car collectors’ garage and residence in central Texas. The design features compact living quarters, expressed as a single mass, floating above an open area for flexible gathering and automobile calibration/display.

Cottonwood House by Bernbaum – Magadini Architects

Cottonwood House is a single family house designed by Bernbaum-Magadini Architects. The house is located in Dallas, Texas, US. From the architect: A home for entertaining...

This Austin House Enables a Flexible Lifestyle: Main Stay House

This Austin house was completed recently by Matt Fajkus Architecture. Description by Matt Fajkus Architecture: Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood provides a unique and ever-changing context...