Academic Architecture Portfolio

ACADEMIC DESIGN PORTFOLIO JEREMY HARRIENGER

FIRST STOP HOUSING

Mixed-Use Affordable Housing, 2021

A CIVIC MEMBRANE

Cultural Arts Center, 2019

DENSITY, DISTRIBUTED

Neighborhood ADU, 2020

POROUS GROUND

High-Rise Campus Housing, 2020

First Stop Housing

Studio: Jesús Vassallo | Spring 2021

While Houston is one of the most demographically diverse cities in the country, it struggles with affordable housing and can be a difficult place to arrive for immigrants. This development provides communallyfocused, dignified apartments in a variety of unit types as a hub for new Houstonians to integrate into the existing community.

A ground level of retail, sports fields, and park space offers residents from the surrounding neighborhoods motivation to visit the site, integrate it into their daily lives, and mix with the new tenants. The majority of the development is kept affordable through a mix of market-rate prices, combined with rental income from the retail units. Through this mixed income model, and financed through HUD and City of Houston grant programs, this housing community can become a vibrant, multivariegated, and robust first stop for those who need it most.

Site Features Axon

Three typologies are proposed, all structured by a modular system of heavy timber, glulam, and CLT panels. This unitary floor plate system is subdivided and grouped into a variety of unit types. Family levels are inward-focused, with private balconies and habitation spaces, while onebed levels feature communal kitchens and living areas.

Where typologies A and B feature smaller individual retail spaces on their ground level, the shorter typology C features larger programs such as daycare or workshare centers, further tying the development into the intrinsic needs of the greater community.

Retail Level

Communal Studio Unit Level B

Individual 2 Bed / 1 Bath Unit Level B

Communal Studio Unit Level A

Individual 2 Bed / 1 Bath Unit Level A

Typology C

Typology A

Typology B

A civic membrane

Studio: Carlos Jiménez | Fall 2019

This center celebrates Houston’s immigrant population and exists to engage the general public in community discourse. The building serves a dual purpose:

-To house visiting or transitioning immigrant artists and archive relevant works.

-To display this work and give presentations to citizens about the lives and journeys of their immigrant neighbors.

To facilitate this two-way relationship, the building is organized around a perforated facade of brick. This permeable partition presents a strong institutional face toward the city, enclosing a safe haven for newly arrived travelers. However, from within it’s solidity inverts to a screen looking out, and demarcates a membrane meant to break down, to be negotiated.

The interior is a blend of publicly accessible cafe and observation spaces which bring a flow of visitors into contact with the semi-private gallery programs at the core of the facility. This permeable flow allows for civic engagement on multiple levels.

Site: Museum District, Houston

1 release the corner

2 expand the public domain

3 interlink circulation

4 create dynamic terrain

5 screen and protect

6 project and engage

The mixed program is permeated by several flows, highlighting the interconnectedness of things...

Rain water is the first of these forces, permeating down behind the brick screen...

...it cuts through every level, tying discrete program through a shared sound and visual feature...

This flow feeds the growth cycle of rooftop gardens, the building’s thermal & social backbone...

It pours out into a reflecting pool, capturing the image of the city in the building’s frame...

...coming to rest in a sunken courtyard, feeding a wetland for the building’s water processing...

...sitting atop the archive, the knowledge around which the bodies and cycles of site all flow.

Density, distributed

Studio: Andrew Colopy | Fall 2020

While ADUs are advocated for their ability to densify suburban sprawl, such proposed units often lack a cohesive relationship with one another. They similarly do not address the other drawback of suburban developments: single-use zoning. This project takes advantage of the water runoff channels, common to most Houston neighborhoods, as a site along which a widespread zoning variance could promote a new linear core in the Brays Oaks district.

An initial study of suitable lots (rear yards abutting the drainage easement, with space to accommodate a minimum floor area and setbacks) reveals target zones for development along the shared waterway. The ADU’s prefabricated design allows fast crane installation on site.

The new units are connected by a shared biking/walking path, adding a currently non-existent pedestrian infrastructure. The lower level of each new unit features an open plan able to be used for a variety of public facing programs - retail, offices, work share, daycare center. By distributing the density in this more tactical way, the neighborhood not only adds housing stock but deepens the strength of its community.

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2. Prefab Phase: Wall Framing Sheathing MEP Rough-In Insulation

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Site Install Phase: Ground Level Units

Site Install Phase: Shading Structures Final Finishing

Prefab Phase: Floor Framing Sheathing Insulation

3. Prefab Phase: Cladding Roofing

5. Site Install Phase: Upper Level Units

Porous Ground

Studio: Douglas Oliver | Spring 2020

The Texas Medical Center sits at an intersection of districts composed of commercial/medical high-rises, high-income residential neighborhoods, and low-income apartment blocks respectively. Such a space presents a unique opportunity to activate all these diverse groups while providing a new public urban asset.

The proposal includes a nursing college, medical library, office tower, and multitude of research labs. Preference on the street level is also given to retail and outward-facing program as a means to engage pedestrian traffic and nearby residents. The center of the site is cleared of impervious cover and functions as a drainage pool and public park.

This open space is the crux of this project: the act of public engagement within what is usually considered a private campus.

The project is titled Porous Ground to indicate both that large amounts of site space are given over to a functioning ecosystem, as well as the site’s spatial and programmatic openness to the greater city of Houston.

Landscape Distribution Diagram

Classrooms & Lecture Halls

Research Labs

Street Level Retail

Nursing School Dorms

Classrooms & Lecture Halls

Street Level Retail

Nursing School Dorms

Administration & Offices

Medical Library

Street Level Retail

Private Circulation

Public Circulation

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