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Soaring Wings

deep in the heart of texas

Visionary yet timeless, Soaring Wings is a custom home that brings refinement to the rough and rugged landscape of the Texas desert.

This project takes an intellectual approach to design that creates not only a stunning piece of modern architecture, but a piece of art. Soaring Wings features 840 customized, hand seemed copper panels that give this home a feeling of peace, beauty, and continuity.

 

Architect

Winn Wittman

Location

Austin, Texas, USA

Builder

Gary Robinson

Year Built

2007

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From the Architect

The home is separated into a public volume, containing the living, eating and entertaining spaces, and a private volume, containing the bedrooms, separated by a two-story glass and steel bridge. Two large wings face the west façade, clad in copper, which provide both sculptural expression, and shading. Motorized mesh shades programmed to an astronomical clock raise and lower with the sun. 

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Panel Details

  • The copper panels used on this project weigh 20-ounces each, and are hand folded and seamed.
  • Copper wall panels require no maintenance, and left as is, will weather to a green patina in approximately 20 years based on regional weather.
  • The copper wall panels are 18 inches by 3 feet in size, and are staggered on an 8-inch pattern.
  • These panels utilize a pattern and means of attachment similar to that used by Frank Gehry on his famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
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