该项目是一个小型的城市填充改造项目，位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀老西区唯一的混合用途社区–克拉克斯维尔。该建筑是Baldridge建筑事务所的办公室，是奥斯汀的一个小型建筑工作室。这个1450平方英尺的改造项目坐落在一个不起眼的位置，位于贯穿克拉克斯维尔的主要双车道商业街的停车场中。原本是一个混凝土砌体单元的仓库，粘附在一个被忽视的20世纪60年代的电视维修企业的建筑上，这个重塑的结构不仅是公司的家，也是对奥斯汀住宅区盛行的 “软现代 “本能的重新定位，也是对其餐馆和商业机构所特有的时尚表面的一种定位。

This project is a small urban infill renovation located in Clarksville, the only mixed use neighborhood in Old West Austin, Texas. The structure serves as the offices for Baldridge Architects, a small architecture studio in Austin. The 1450 square foot renovation sits in an unassuming location amidst a parking lot along the principal two-lane commercial street the runs through Clarksville. Originally a concrete masonry unit warehouse glommed on to the neglected 1960s building of a television repair business, the reinvented structure serves not only as the firm’s home but also as a redirection from the “soft modern” instincts that prevail in Austin’s residential neighborhoods, and from the trendy surfaces that characterize its restaurants and commercial establishments.

该项目规模不大，包括10名设计师的住宿，一个会议室，小厨房，浴室和一个材料库和休息室。为了应对奥斯汀目前的设计景观中占主导地位的图像驱动的模仿，设计师们在有限的调色板和有限的占地面积下工作。其结果是用光滑的白色石膏覆盖了一个鲜明的形式，只用不规则的伸缩缝的节奏来装饰（选择它是为了结合和理解从相邻的电视维修建筑中继承的各种立面数据）。一个3英尺×12英尺的窗户/天窗，其玻璃与外部灰泥齐平，标志着前立面，作为公司的动态生活标志。

The project is small, comprising accommodations for ten designers, a conference room, kitchenette, bathroom and a materials library and lounge. In response to the image-driven pastiche predominating Austin’s current design landscape, the designers worked with a limited palette and a circumscribed footprint. The result is a stark form clad in smooth white plaster, adorned only by the rhythm of its irregular expansion joints (chosen to incorporate and make sense of the various elevational data inherited form the adjoining TV repair building). A single 3’ by 12’ window/skylight, its glazing flush to the exterior plaster, marks the front façade, acting as dynamic living signage for the firm.

下面是一个材料库和休息室，通过一个单独的门进入，可以容纳建筑实践中比较混乱的元素。 一个半透明的遮阳篷覆盖了仓库的入口和相邻企业的后部入口，为员工提供了一个遮风挡雨的空间，他们经常在下面聚集在一起。 由不规则间隔的喷漆钢管和膨胀网制成的围栏将入口与电视维修店的服务核心分开，并提供了一个空间来组织，如果不是完全隐藏的话，其垃圾。

Below, a materials library and lounge are accessed through a separate door, accommodating the messier elements of the architectural practice. A translucent awning covers the entries to the storage and to the rear entry of the adjoining business, allowing shelter from the elements and a space for its employees who often congregate beneath. Enclosures fabricated from irregularly spaced painted steel tubes and expanded mesh separate the entry from the service core of the TV Repair and provide a space to organize, if not completely hide, its refuse.

室内采用简单的白色，以大胆的积雪草地板和悬臂式桃花心木架为点缀。协调的揭示和平齐的基础细节转回18英寸深的墙壁–这是外部非绝缘cmu结构的净结果–创造出墙壁漂浮在4英寸基准线以上的微妙错觉。紧凑而实用的布局、博物馆般光滑的表面、协调的走线和无声的细节设计，与建筑客户在首次考虑自己的项目时经常伴随的平方英尺和设施驱动的本能形成了有说服力的对比。

The interior is rendered simply in white, accented with bold cumaru flooring and cantilevered mahogany shelves. Coordinated reveals and flush base detailing turn back into the 18” deep walls – the net result of the exterior uninsulated cmu structure – to create the subtle illusion that the walls float above a 4” datum. The compact and pragmatic layout, museum-smooth surfaces, coordinated alignments and silent detailing act as persuasive counterpoints to the square-footage and amenity driven instincts that often accompany architectural clients when they first consider their own projects.

该项目是在有限的预算下完成的，公司的成员以前是以设计-建造的方式运作的，每个人都贡献了自己的技能来建造这个空间。在其不吉利的背景下，该结构毫不含糊，简单，精确但不费力，醒目但明显。

The project was delivered with a limited budget and the members of the firm, which previously operated as a design-build concern, each contributed his or her skills to build the space. In its inauspicious context, the structure sits unapologetic and simple, precise but effortless, striking but obvious.

Architects: Baldridge Architects
Area: 1450 ft²
Year: 2013
Photographs: Casey Dunn
City：AUSTIN
Country：United States