• Excellent daylighting
  • Mixed use project
  • Passive solar design
  • Natural convective cooling
  • Multi-family housing
  • Urban infill development
Design of a large addition to an art school on the historic river walk. The addition includes classrooms, an auditorium, a gallery, a restaurant, and faculty housing with art studios. We expressed the school's mission of transferring knowledge while respecting the existing school's historic architecture (without mimicking it), framing urban space, resolving the public/private space relationships, and dealing with the brutal Texas sun. 1988.
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We specialize in green architecture. Thomas Doerr is a sustainable architect. We design solar homes throughout the western and southern united states. Sustainable solar homes and mixed-use buildings are our focus in texas colorado and california.