Design Build Adventure

Dai Due Butcher Shop and Supper Club | Austin, Texas

We’re thrilled that Dai Due is collecting a steady stream of rave reviews since opening its restaurant on Manor Road in August. The DBA crew thoroughly enjoyed its in-depth collaboration with owner Jesse Griffiths on the design and fabrication of the restaurant’s custom grills, knife-handle bar taps and a Caja China (picture a steel box on wheels — a fire on top, a whole animal inside).

Lead designer and fabricator Philip Burkhardt says the main benefit of this … Keep Reading→

ACVB
Signed, sealed and delivered! The DBA crew installed a collection of custom furnishings for the new Austin Visitors Center. Thanks to Runa Workshop, the architectural firm behind the center, for allowing us to be a part of this very cool project.

Custom Table
We completed the second iteration of a custom-designed dining table with a steel base and white stone top. Designed by Adrian and Jack, the table now graces the dining room of a private residence in Houston.

Camp Heavy Metal
Our third Camp Heavy Metal benefitting … Keep Reading→

Albany Ranch
Thanks in part to a collaboration with David Bowers at Studio A, we’re making progress on designs for a bunkhouse renovation and two new structures on this family ranch. The proposed design is staying true to the original aesthetic and includes some “structural gymnastics” to show off the oil-pipe truss beams designed by the family patriarch, Bob Green. In addition to DBA’s favorite material — OIL PIPE! — other materials include aerated concrete blocks, structurally insulated panels (SIPs) and Kalwall, a translucent wall panel.

Venable Center
Framing … Keep Reading→

Eleven members of the Design Build Adventure crew headed east to the Big Easy this past November for the Voodoo Music & Art Experience, a three-day festival that, over the years, has drawn more than 450 bands and 1 million music fans to New Orleans city park.

This year, as Voodoo celebrated its 15th birthday, Design Build Adventure was hired to create the site plan for and then manage the festival’s general admission and VIP camping areas. On the technical side, this entailed mapping out electrical and plumbing and … Keep Reading→

Venable Center | Stephenville

Having received a green light on our design, construction is now under way at Venable Center. This project, located on Jane Hickie’s private ranch near Stephenville, involves transforming a 1901 schoolhouse and 1951 parish hall into a community gathering place for weddings, theatrical and musical performances, banquets and other special occasions. Hickie, who directed the Office of State-Federal Relations under the late Gov. Ann Richards, enlisted Design Build Adventure to restore the buildings to their former glory, while updating them with audio-visual support, … Keep Reading→

For the third June in a row, Camp Design Build Adventure has worked with the Dersu Collective in Marfa, Texas to continue the development of the park improvements at East Side Play!  Each year, the new campers are introduced to the project by our hosts, Nick and Maryam, who tell us what they observed since the previous year’s work.  From there, we embark on a 24 hour cultural immersion / sensory overload /  scavenger hunt which includes Marfa Hardware, Livingston’s, Food Shark, the Rock shop, the Lost Horse, etc, etc, … Keep Reading→

Just letting everyone know that Far Out will be up at RE Gallery (1717 Gould Street, Dallas, TX 75215) until June 9th. Come check out the collages, prints, sketches and tetrahedron sculpture.

These images (by Chad Redmon) and more can be found at the RE Gallery facebook page.… Keep Reading→

Come out this Saturday, April 13th to Palm Park (E. Cesar Chavez and IH-35) for the Waller Creek Pop-Up Adventure Picnic and see the installation DBA has built for this great event. The images above are a time lapse sneak-peek of the final design… We can’t reveal it just yet.

Check out the official event page here, as well as the Tribeza article and also a description of the picnic by Texas Monthly Senior Editor (and fellow Texas Playboy) John Spong. See you Saturday!… Keep Reading→

March 1, 2013 – we moved to the new headquarters, Camp Design Build Adventure.
March – Hillside Retaining Wall, Castrop Gates, Bike Shed Trellis “X”‘s, development of Waller Pop Up, front porch, back porch, plumbing, y mas
March 27, 2013 – Adrian and Dan depart for the DOONANNY.
April 13, 2013 – Pop Up Adventure Picnic, PALM PARK
April 19-21, 2013 – A DESIGN BUILD ADVENTURE IN HEAVY METAL
June 5-10, 2013 – Camp Design Build Adventure El Cosmico Marfa, TX … Keep Reading→

The Long Time and the Mean Time.

January 2013.

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team: @designbuildadventure, @nefarious_wayfarer, @dandyerband, @jrosinbaum, @adolfm14, @jaimelovell, and philip

camp design build adventure article in design bureau magazine. bike shed and steel planter are mark word designs.

photos by adolfo moreno (mostly)… Keep Reading→

Been a hell of a month.  We have a number of exciting things going on at Design Build Adventure.  Starting with the Fun Fun Fun Festival “Chill Zones”, the East Side Studio Tour where Jack unveiled the “tortilla moon” series as a part of his celestial “black hole”, and “blue star” works, the steel columns and saddles at the Thoughtbarn designed Santa Anna residence of “productivity and delight”, the  Cedar fence, Cedar Gate, Cedar Retaining Wall, and as usual a number of Studio A designed steel furniture pieces (under construction).  … Keep Reading→

A little late… but here are some photos of the Jack’s UT students “geodesic” projects in Marfa during El Cosmico.  The first half of the semester they dove into Bucky Fuller’s “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, and “Education Automation” – culminating in a drive to Marfa for the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love where they erected their “geodesic” structures from recycled and reclaimed materials (try wine works, paper, cardboard, and yes, venetian blinds from the Habitat ReStore.)  The second half of the semester has been focused on designing a … Keep Reading→