HK Associates Inc

Courtyards House

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

COURTYARDS HOUSE

HK Associates Inc

MANUFACTURERS
Hansgrohe, Western Window Systems, Antonio Lupi, Wetstyle

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Tucson, United States

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

Situated in a nondescript subdivision in Tucson, Arizona, the Courtyards House is a desert minimalist reinvention of residential suburban inhabitation.

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

Conceived as a series of interlocking interior and exterior volumes, the living spaces of the home contain, or are contained by six individual courtyards.

Spatial boundaries are defined, yet fluid, with light, views and access flowing from one part of the home to the next.

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

Each courtyard is distinctly xeriscaped with southern Arizona specimens, providing moments of focus and release – foreground and middle ground lend themselves to background and the distant mountain views beyond.

The courtyards, and the boundaries they define, also serve a programmatic role: to “zone” the house for the clients’ eleven rescue cats.

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

Feline accommodation extends to the design of cabinetry, which incorporates a variety of hiding and play spaces.

The Courtyards House also serves as a gallery for the clients’ collection of paintings and photographs by Tucson artists.

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

In many cases, the colors and compositions of the individual art pieces are complimented by the adjacent xeriscapes, or through the home’s architectural play of light-and- shadow.

The white interior and exterior walls act as a canvas for registering temporal atmospheres – the subtleties and contrasts imbued by the desert sky throughout the day and night.

Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman


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© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
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© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman


Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman
Courtyards House
© Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman


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HK Associates Inc
T +1 520 5775260
HK Associates Inc
3514 N Olsen, Tucson, Az 85719, United States