New York Firm, Peter Gluck and Partners Architects concentrates primarily on residential and institutional projects that are characterized as new-age modernism. The Floating Box House, located in Austin Texas, is designed true to the nature of its mythic name. This modern residential work of architecture and contemporary interior design relies on the composition of forms that showcase blocks of space and areas absent of space. The top floor has a few small scattered windows on one side and a large open terrace overlooking an outdoor pool on the other side.
The floating box’s strategically placed windows allow for views outside to nature from the privately confined rooms of the upper level. In addition to providing expansive views outward from the home, the completely open ground level gives this portion of the home a spatial transparency to the environment.
