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Project • By CONTENT Architecture • Private Houses
Grennoch Residence
Despite the damage of Hurricane Harvey, the clients maintained a desire to call this neighborhood their home. They wanted to consider how the design of the house could respond to potential future storms, providing resilience while allowing for an outdoor lifestyle and connection to the landscape. The design mitigates the necessity of raising the house with this desire to connect to outdoor spaces. In response, the design provides for outdoor living spaces at the ground level while also recessing outdoor spaces within the volumes of home.
Cesar Bejar
Located within the 100-year flood plain, the design creates a prototype for residential construction in the areas adjacent to Houston's bayous. Rather than following the minimum 5' lift di... More
Project • By CONTENT Architecture • Private Houses
Puzzle House
This home for a family of four in Houston Heights references the surrounding neighborhood context with a reinterpretation of traditional elements that are distinctly modern. The oversized 'clapboard' siding that wraps the exterior pays homage to the wood siding that clads the historic bungalows which make up the neighborhood. At the roof, a gable roof form peaks at the center of the home, sloping downward as it approaches the sidewalk to mitigate the scale of the house. At the peak of the roof, a skylight brings daylight into a lofted reading space.
Cesar Bejar
Rather than extending covered porches outward from the volume of the house, exterior spaces are carved away from the overall mass to bring outdoor space into the home’s i... More