Low-Density Livable Housing
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Years of Design Established in 1982
Architecture Driven by Community.
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Primary Markets Transit • Civic • Non-Profit • Aviation • Education • Housing • Commercial • Operations & Maintenance
HUB DBE • MBE METRO SBE State & Municipal Certifications
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RDLR is Recognized as a 2023 Outstanding Diverse Organization by HBJ.
About RDLR TRANSIT
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Founded in 1982, Rey de la Reza Architects, Inc. (RDLR) is recognized throughout Texas as a community-driven architectural firm providing design excellence and outstanding project management services in the Houston area. With a 40-year history, the firm has been involved in the design of a variety of transit, commercial, educational, urban design, residential, and renovation projects and continues to provide exceptional service to public entities including: City of Houston, Fort Bend County, Houston Airport System, METRO, HCTRA, The Harris Center, numerous ISD’s, GSA, USPS and TxDOT. Our firm is certified MBE and Texas HUB. RDLR believes in community driven architecture. Capital investments should respond to user needs as well as benefit the overall community. RDLR looks beyond project limits to seek opportunities to enhance the public realm and create places for communities. We believe that good design is not contingent upon the schedule or budget but rather the result of an inclusive design process that includes stakeholders, community leaders and design and construction professionals. Successful projects reflect
cultural influences and are contextually sensitive. They are sustainable developments which are cost effective to maintain and operate. Strong design solutions are the result of a collaborative, interactive process led by the design team that involves all stakeholders including users, community residents, transit agencies and specialty consultants. We are well versed at techniques for generating ideas in various settings. Careful attention is given to achieving a balance between building, surroundings, landscape, and site-specific issues. Through an inclusive process, we involve active participants, first in the programming sessions, and later in design workshops. This results in an accelerated design process, where concrete design ideas are generated respecting the programmatic and budgetary constraints. The process creates client/user consensus at an early stage in the project. Another benefit of this process is the creation of effective communications avenues among the participants.
HOUSING Balboa Apartments Galveston Housing Authority - The Oaks I, III and IV Harvest Moon Houston Housing Authority - Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village Houston Housing Authority - Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village Resource Center and Childcare Houston Housing Authority - Cuney Homes Phases II, III & IV Houston Housing Authority - Cuney Homes Multi-Service Center Houston Housing Authority - Clayton Homes Houston Housing Authority - Oxford Place Houston Housing Authority - Oxford Place Community Center La Vue Terrace King Diamond King’s Creek Lofts N. Main Lofts Palm Terrace The Harris Center Apartments The Sapphire Resort Apartments Sheltering Arms Senior Center Renovations Village Center Apartments
Our Design Pholosophy
We believe housing should reflect meaningful design and serve as building blocks for communities to create memorable and lasting places. Our portfolio includes a variety of multi-family residential and single-family projects. These building types include low-rise, garden-style, mid-rise, podium, high-rise, wrap, mixed-use, student housing, senior living and low-income housing developments. We seek to create communities tied to place that residents are proud to call home. Context and insight into the particulars of place including topography, climate, program, client’s needs, aspirations, and culture are key considerations for each project design. The results are the inspiration of our process and the projects we create. Through interactive sessions our team ensures we create designs that respond to each project’s needs.
Farmhouse Quadplex
Situated within a rural neighborhood of Sealy, Texas and adjacent to a main thouroughfare, Evlyn Court development provides traditional, pitched roof volumes separated by generously sized communal pavilions. The site layout’s low-density arrangement of buildings in combination with the building’s modern farmhouse aesthetic respects the scale and materiality of its suburban context.
EVLYN COURT Sealy, Texas
CLIENT
Evlyn Properties, LLC
DETAILS
2-Story Quadplex, Garden Style $2.4 M Construction Cost 16 Units 14,496 SF
Growing Community Housing
The Harvest Moon apartments provide a comfortable and efficient housing solution to Sealy’s thriving economy. The garden-style multi-family project is a (75) dwelling unit, 144,000 sf multifamily development on an approximately 3-acre lot. The building’s simple 4-story form is organized around an exterior double-loaded corridor. Synthetic wood vertical slats allude to the agrarian roots of the surrounding city while framing vistas of the prairie-like landscape.
HARVEST MOON Sealy, Texas
CLIENT
Private Developer
DETAILS
4-Story Garden $6.2 M Construction Cost 75 Units 88,400 SF
Workforce Housing
La Villa Rosa aims to boost density and affordability for the predominately Hispanic community within northside/northline community. The building is composed of repetitive volumes connected by a variable fenestration scheme which blends the wide variety of neighboring building typologies. At each interval transverse corridors allow for direct access and frame views to enhance the resident’s arrival sequence, in addition to maximizing land-use.
LA VILLA ROSA Houston, Texas
CLIENT
Aria Development, LLC
DETAILS
3-Story Garden $3.8 M Construction Cost 48 Units 45,679 SF
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NOVUS HOME Glendale, California
CLIENT
Novus Real Estate Group
DETAILS
2-Story Garden Style $4.5 M Construction Cost 30 Units 26,100 SF
Transformational Living
The community will include a total of 26 one-bedroom apartments for clients transitioning from institutional care to independent living and provide a safe place for them to practice life skills, reestablish a sense of stability, and perhaps make friends in the process. The site hosts an existing one-story mental health facility that will serve as a clinical resource for the residences of the community.
THE HARRIS CENTER - APARTMENTS Houston, Texas
CLIENT The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD
DETAILS
2-Story Garden $5.6 M Construction Cost 26 Units 17,300 SF
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