35711 Vernon Frost Rd
The Orchards at Pecan Acres
1. Environmental Features Bringing well-recognized characteristics of the natural world into the built environment: Color, water, air, sunlight, plants, animals and natural materials. Landscapes and Geology.
Emboldening the Principles of Biophilic Design
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Clad in Kebony wood, this exterior is a state of the art material is strong, sustainable and a long lasting part of our future. Like nature itself, Kebony wood requires no maintenance and becomes more beautiful every year.
Roof-line peaks offer intriguing juxtaposition to the soft skies of the region. Harmonized by natural growing vines from the irrigated louvers and carefully placed landscaping, the structure is situated on the site to blend the natural and constructed.
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2.Natural Shapes and Forms
Simulation of natural features, extending even to biomorphic art, architecture, design. Incorporates experiences of the natural world into the modern built environment.
Experience the vast appreciation for this unique natural condition. The expansive rear patio cantilevers starkly over the banks of Lake Lucille. The glass encased corridors express unique perspectives of the landscape.
Emboldening the principles of biophilic design, this architectural experience is a showcase of historic landscape, precision craftsmanship, and luxury living.
The Kebony wood exterior, perfectly crafted standing seam metal roof and analogous fixtures complete the visual experience of this design.
An observation deck atop the garage encourages an all-encompassing appreciation for the agrarian landscape of The Orchards at Pecan Acres.
The natural environment spans the stucture’s thresholds creating a balance of indoor and outdoor living. Comprehensive views of fawna and flora immerse residents in an uncompromising encounter with the pristine backdrop.
3. Natural Patterns and Processes Varying the sensory experience of a space with time, change, and transitions; complimentary contrasts, the play between balance and tension; rhythm, ratios and use of scale. Information richness. Fractals and organized complexity.
Carefully drafted rooflines enhance the treelines of the Pecan Orchard. Each window exhibits its own vi¡gnette of the countryside.
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4. Light and Space How and why humans react to light in all its forms (warm, cool, shaped, filtered, diffused, inside vs. outside) informs how to use it. The same applies to differing kinds of spaces:
Ready for your interior vision, these illustrations showcase harmony between the manufactured and the natural, utilizing natural light to enhance each space.
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5. Place-Based Relationships The significance of place is tied to meaning: Historic, cultural, geographic, spiritual, or ecological. With deeper understanding, we can honor and evoke those relationships within the build environment.
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35711 Vernon Frost Rd
The Orchards at Pecan Acres
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he Orchards at Pecan Acres offers an entirely new vision of the Fulshear lifestyle. Surrounded by the polo fields that have become synonymous with the area, The Orchards occupies a portion of the famous Pecan Acres Ranch, the former Frost cattle ranch and pecan-orchard property. The ranch is famous for pecan trees, pastures that at one time raised champion bloodline cattle as well as horses and goats, and wildlife that includes peacocks, ducks, eagles, and deer. Location and topography make The Orchards a highly desirable site for residential development but there is an even more enticing component: the project is being spearheaded by David Frost Wersebe, a Frost grandson with close ties to the land and his grandfather’s original vision. Wersebe and his development team are building on his family’s custodianship to re-purpose and transform the land into a new kind of development, a biophilic design, that truly functions in concert with the environment. The land presents a unique, distinctly Texas
slice of history. Its former owner, Houston oil and gas magnate Vernon W. Frost, hailed from a family with deep Houston roots. Vernon Frost’s grandfather founded one of Houston’s earliest suburbs, Frost Town. Frost wrote an account of his purchase of Pecan Acres Ranch and its subsequent colorful history as his family’s working ranch, pecan orchard and second home. He was working as a lease hound for the legendary oil man Hugh Roy Cullen in 1945 when, during a rainstorm, his car slipped into a ditch between Simonton and Brookshire near the bridge at Bessie’s Creek. Frost walked to the ranch house at nearby Pecan Acres Ranch and, in the course of having his car put right, struck a friendship with the ranch owner. A few months later, Frost purchased the 500-acre Pecan Acres Ranch and began to acquire surrounding properties to expand his acreage. It was the start of a decadeslong, highly successful Frost family enterprise that improved Pecan Acres Ranch and laid the groundwork for Fulshear and Simonton’s future growth and prosperity.
6. Evolved Human-Nature We have been transformed by our complex relationship with Nature, and we still react strongly to the echoes of our long history. We can use design to evoke these powerful reminders.
In a state known for bigger and better, Frost threw some of the most lavish parties ever held in Texas. The ranch’s country-club sized swimming pool and patio, which Frost built for his children, was the setting for high-profile charity and political fundraisers. Author Edna Ferber completed part of her research for “Giant,” her best-selling book about Texas, at the ranch, and others who came to stay included Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and Gene Autry, “The Singing Cowboy.” It is with respect for Vernon Frost’s vision and enterprise that Wersebe has incorporated the principles of biophilic design into his transformation of Pecan Acres Ranch into The Orchards at Pecan Acres. The 200-acre community edges the shores of Lake Lucille. Development will be limited to approximately 40 residences, each of which will have its structure woven into its immediate surroundings and the unique, heavily equestrian Fulshear environment. Fulshear/
Simonton is the epicenter of Houston’s equestrian community, and The Orchards has kept the horse-themed landscape front-and-center as development proceeds. Horse disciplines represented here range from polo to hunter-jumper to western-trail, and bridle paths will wind through throughout the neighborhood. A section of ranch estates within The Orchards will further support the flourishing equestrian lifestyle, and the first ranch estate is nearing completion. Located at 35711 Vernon Frost Road, this almost 6,000 square foot home, offering beautiful views of open spaces and pecan orchards from nearly every angle, is ready for the right buyer to customize the interior features and make it their own. The home is constructed from materials complimentary to the environment such as hand-cut Texas limestone and hand-hewn beams from a 200-year old Amish barn. Exteriors of sustainable Kebony wood, ideally suited for the coastal Texas climate, contribute to the organic focus of the structure.
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Vanessa Frost Ellis • 713-647-1137 1775 St. James Place • Suite 100 • Houston, Texas 77056 • 713-622-9339 No representation or warranties either expressed or implied are made as to the accuracy of the information herein or with respect to the suitability, usability, feasibility, merchantability or condition of any property described herein.
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