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—cultural

  1. Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University
  2. Breaking Character
  3. Australian Performing Arts Center - Confidential
  4. Korean Cultural Project - Confidential

—housing

  1. Enfilade House
  2. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Kinetohaus
  5. Playing House
  6. Williamsburg Multifamily
  7. Windsor Terrace
  8. LowRise LA: Floating Bungalows
  9. 8x1 House
  10. Brentwood Residence
  11. Blackland Village

—retail

  1. NC Bar & Cafe
  2. Kingston Co-op Grocery

—installation

  1. Onda Wall
  2. Phantom Formwork
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. Acrylic Mountains
  5. Paper Trails

—research

  1. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  2. Playing House
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Learning from Lampasas
  5. Micropolitan Texas
  6. Computational Drawings

—media

  1. The Architect’s Newspaper
  2. Ghosts in the Machine
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. A+D Museum Redux: Monuments to Maximalism
  5. A+D Museum Future of _Space: Corporate Marketecture
  6. Foam is the Future (ISSUE:Copy)
  7. Architect in the Machine
  8. Digital Baroque
  9. Flattening the Digital and the Phyiscal
  10. TEDxUTAustin, “Hyperobjects: Aesthetic Philosophy for Sustainable Architecture”
  11. Simplicity is Dead

—info

  1. drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
  5. Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries: daviswrichardson@gmail.com

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Brentwood Residence   

Single-Family House Renovation + Addition
Brentwood, TN
2018
When asked to design a significant renovation on an existing middle Tennessee farmhouse, an idea about utilizing typical farmhouse narratives - metal roofing, board and batten siding, large porches, dormers - translated into a more contemporary, if subdued, approach to create a T-shaped plan with an addition on the back to open out to an existing stone courtyard and garden. The entire house is wrapped in a new porch covered by a columnless, cantilevered metal roof whose form curves and lofts to soften the connection to the surrounding land.







“Dormers” are replaced with vertical skylight solar chimneys, and the battens of the board and batten siding are a variable pattern, based on projecting the existing and future outbuildings through the main house.

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