PORTFOLIO
Enrique Macias
2016-2025
Personal Work
Design Competitons
Studio Projects
Mexico City Flexible Housing
5th Year Studio
Martha Rodriguez Fall 2019
Pre fabricated concrete structures create modular utilitarian components that are arranged to make apartment units of different sizes while providing support for the upper levels. This design brings endless flexibility in a programmatic way, by arranging the modules in different ways.
Japan Study Abroad
Fifth Ward Jazz Club
Location: 1108 Elysian Street, Houston, TX
77006 Year: Fall 2018
Professor: Donna Kacmar
Mission: Activate Highway Underpass Using Architecture
CoHousing / Cafe
Location: Third Ward
Year: Spring 2019
Professor: Paul Homayer
Mediateque CAMH Museum Addition
Location: 5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX
77006 Year: Spring 2018
Professor: Kevin Story
University of Houston
Figure Ground Building use
Houston Heritage Society
Houston Cultural Center
Houston Cultural Center
Location: Public Library Downtown Houston
Fall 2017 - 2018
The intent of this project is to create a building + park that creates a new way look at space within a city, and extends the essence of the park and heritage society into the site in a way that is aproachable and brings life to the surrounding area. This is achived by mirroring the houses around the park and representing them in a “ghostlike way” . This houses have multiple functions; to hold and protect the program within their spaces from flooding, to work as lightwells at day and lanterns at night. Having an open plan at the subterranian level highlights the importance of the houses and gives them a sense of grouding, while the materiality progresses from outside in, developing a visual conection with the exterior and interior when you aporach the building. The Cultural center bridges with its surroundings by creating a walkable surface with hills, this activates the walkable roof and makes people experience this unseemly heels in the texas flat landscape.
Professor: Sheryl Tucker de vazquez
University of Houston
The intent of this project is to create a building + park that creates a new way look at space within a city, and extends the essence of the park and heritage society into the site in a way that is aproachable and brings life to the surrounding area. This is achived by mirroring the houses around the park and representing them in a “ghostlike way” . This houses have multiple functions; to hold and protect the program within their spaces from flooding, to work as lightwells at day and lanterns at night. Having an open plan at the subterranian level highlights the importance of the houses and gives them a sense of grouding, while the materiality progresses from outside in, developing a visual conection with the exterior and interior when you aporach the building. The Cultural center bridges with its surroundings by creating a walkable surface with hills, this activates the walkable roof and makes people experience this unseemly heels in the texas flat landscape.
day - lightwells night - lanterns
Barton Springs
Location: Barton Springs Austin TX
Year: spring 2017
Professor: Chris Oliver
University of Houston
The Barton Springs Bath House attempts to expose the natural limestone that is vernacular to the springs, by using gabion walls filled with limestone rocks placed in a way which guides circula-tion from the parking area to the pools. Lightwells bring natural sunlight to the pool areas and a skin system copies the effect that the light has on the gabion walls by developing a pattern from the voids.
Barton Springs
Limestone areas
Barton springs is a popular destination in Austin, where people can enjoy swimming in natural limestone springs. The main idea behind this project is to create a simple winding gabion wall composed of the lime-stone which is an aspect of the site that i wished to expose. The gabion wall has many purposes, it acts as the structure for the bridge, it helps to slow down the current so it can be more pleasant to swim inside the bridge, and also filters light
Barton Springs Bridge
Scale of Limestone
Limestone Gabion Wall