The Lake Travis Retreat set to be a family home where family and friends can spend precious free time enjoying one another and the beauty of the Highland Lakes setting. The most gestural element of the house is a raised, copper clad pavilion with transparent walls facing south toward the neighborhood and north toward the courtyard and lake.

The butterfly shape of the roof dramatically casts off rainwater through an oversized scupper, an external reference to the series of seven water features found inside the walls of the retreat. The courtyard …