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Shelter for Mothers

Houston Museum

Mixed Use Climate House Houston Studio Art

Mothers + E.A.C.

Museum of Immigration Houston

Shelter for Mothers + E.A.C.

Houston, TX

Studio 601 - Rice University Professor Mark Wamble

Fall 2023

Located on the current site of the Emergency Aid Coalition, within the Museum District of Houston, TX, the shelter for single mothers is designed to provide temporary housing, mental and physical healthcare, dining, and childcare services. The Emergency Aid Coalition currently does an outstanding job of serving the homeless of the area as well as families in need, though they have outgrown their facility and are in need of larger storage and meal prep areas. The shelter would join their new facility on the currently unoccupied space on the rest of the city block, both programs contained in a singular envelope while maintaining a strict level of security needed to protect the women of children that require the shelter’s services. This envelope was developed within the studio following a structural study of the skin-on-frame kayak, a 4,000 year-old technology originally constructed with driftwood, seal skin, and sinew lashing.

Project partner: Jared Snow

Unskinned Wall Panel Module Laser cut ply-wood, & artiﬁcial sinew Bailey Stevens & Jared Snow

Plans levels 1-4

Bailey Stevens

[left] Skin-On-Frame kayak; Plan and Elevation. Bailey Stevens [bottom right] Stress Model. Laser cut ply-wood, artiﬁcial sinew, bomboo composite textile, & bio-resin Bailey Stevens & Jared Snow [top left] Stress Test review. Model supported 200lbs of lead shot

Section Perspective. Cafeteria, housing units, and counseling

Bailey Stevens

Perspective Render. Corner of Calumet and Fannin Streets

Bailey Stevens

Wall Section 1/2” = 1’-0”

[left] Perspective Render. Housing tower light-well Bailey Stevens [right] Wall Section. Housing tower. Jared Snow

Immigration museum

Buffalo Bayou, Houston, TX

Studio 503 - Rice University

Professor Carlos Jimenez

Fall 2022

Immigration Museum Houston is a celebration of the history and influence of immigrants on the city of Houston. As the most diverse city in the United States, it is easy to see how much of an impact immigration has had on the city. Located on Buffalo Bayou, this project integrates itself into this unique landscape and provides gallery space, conference rooms, archives, a cafe, and two 150 seat auditoriums for lectures and screening films.

Site map. Buffalo Bayou at Jackson Hill Bridge.

Floor Plans.

West

Section Perspective. Theater and Cafe view

North Elevation. Buffalo Bayou

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South Elevation. Facing Allen Parkway

Exterior Perspective Render. Revised 2023

Climate House

Houston, TX

Tall Timbers - Rice University

Professor Jesús Vassallo

Fall 2022

This project is designed to be fully constructed with mass timber. The idea for the house was to be specifically catered to the Houston Climate. Typically Climate houses are made to insulate in winter and open up in summer. In Houston, the summer temperatures and humidity are the elements that the house must be insulated from. The winters, on the other hand, are nice and ideal weather for spending time outside comfortably. With this in mind, this project is designed to stay cool and shaded in the summer, and expand into the outdoors for the winter.

Group Project: Bailey Stevens, Yuhan Chen, Yufei Wang, and Nino Chen

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Above: First Level Plan (Summer). Nino Chen and Yuhan Chen Right: First Level Plan (Winter). Top Right: Second Level Plan.

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North Elevation (Summer). Bailey Stevens North Elevation (Winter). Bailey Stevens

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Yufei Wang Edited

Winter Render. Bailey Stevens

Mixed Use Haus

Houston, TX

Studio 502 - Rice University

Professor Mark Wamble

Spring 2022

Taking inspiration from Herzog De Meuron’s Vitra Haus, this project attempt to use similar language of rotated extrusions and varying floor to ceiling heights. The ground level is dedicated to a mix of retail and manufacturing, originally intended for a small business that manufactures custom wax coats. The second and third levels have spaces for retail, restaurants, offices, and private practices. The last two floors are a collection of unique apartments. The glass caps at the end of each extrusion serve as a focal point for the space and to allow for reorientation amidst changing axes.