From Robb Report · Mark David · · 1m 10s
A $45 Million House Shaped Like Water
Dallas gets its first SAOTA house, and its roof rolls like a wave through the treetops.
In brief
Dallas gets its first SAOTA house, and its roof rolls like a wave through the treetops. The wave roof started as a response to the tree canopy, not to water. The name came later. Originally reported by Robb Report.
House of waves
Casa de Ondas is a Dallas home asking $45 million. The Spanish name means house of waves, and the roof earns it.
SAOTA lands in Dallas
This is the first Dallas project from SAOTA, the award-winning international firm, built with Ghost Architects. It was completed in 2025.
The roof undulates
Instead of a flat line, the roof rolls and dips across the property. That single move gives the house its name and its silhouette.
Trees came first
The curves were not a water idea at the start. They answered the canopy of mature trees ringing the site, so the roofline echoes the branches above it.
“the curves were initially conceived as a response to the canopy of mature trees surrounding the property”
Water arrived later
As the design developed, water kept surfacing as a theme. The name followed the building rather than leading it.
Architecture that answers its site
The house is not dropped onto the lot. Its shape is an argument about the trees and water already there.
At a glance
The wave roof started as a response to the tree canopy, not to water. The name came later.
