drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
drooopi offers architectural services for projects of all types, scales, and budgets: houses and housing; restaurant, retail, and brand experiences; arts centers; installations; and more. Our approach is grounded in finding dogmatically rational solutions that challenge presumptions, expressed with a refined and playful aesthetic sensibility.
drooopi is technically a cheeky acronym for “Davis Richardson Office of Objects, Projects, and Images,” meaning we design and make drawings of architecture and related things. drooopi as a name implies the reconsideration of preconceived notions: a building that droops is typically considered to be failing. What opportunities are there for defying conventional wisdom that could produce better buildings, more interesting spaces?
drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries:
daviswrichardson@gmail.com
Seven-unit Housing on Two Single-Family Lots
Blackland, Austin, TX
2017
In keeping with the mission of the Blackland Community Development Corporation of creating diverse, inclusive, affordable communities that fight gentrification, Blackland Village approached the problem of two lots whose land alone cost over half a million dollars by denisfying the site with seven moderately-sized units of housing which would still keep w/ the general size and character of the historic neighborhood.
A stepped deck creates a plinth for the housing units and open, shared community space at elevations that deal with the topography of the site, while a solar canopy overhead provides both renewable energy and significantly reduces the solar heating loads on the units below. Selected cutouts in the canopy accommodate existing trees and special moments of connection to sky within the site.
