Arch 602 – Infill Housing for Bryan, Texas

For our 602 studio, we were tasked with designing infill housing for an alley lot in Bryan, Texas. The site sits, as a slim sliver, between the backyards of existing homes. The surrounding neighborhood is a typical Texan suburb, but we were challenged with adding density to the neighborhood by using condo or town home typologies. Additionally, we were challenged by our studio professor, Tate, to create as many study models as we could for the studio. I ended up creating several dozen study models of varying quality before I eventually ended up with a repeated 2 story form. Quite simply, the first floor is much like a double wide mobile home, and the second is split in half with a roof patio and mono-slope roof. The living space was relegated to the bottom and the private space to the top, with some slight variations between units. The units were also designed to have some of the patios meet together to form larger gathering spaces shared between units, which would be a strategy I would later employ as part of my final study. As far as construction goes, the design was kept very schematic, assuming typical stick built construction as is standard with most housing this scale.