TIMBERGROVE 11TH ST Low Rise Residential Houston, Texas
Client McNair Cockrell Interests Architect of Record Preston Size 305,414 SF Total Area Residential Units: 373 Completion 2025
Houston is defined by the Interstate 610 loop, a freeway ring-road the first ring that defines the city’s inner limits. The Timbergrove neighborhood is within ‘the loop’ and can be subdivided into single family homes and light industrial zones with large parcels of available land. Due to its proximity to Greater Heights neighborhood, a popular community known for its Victorian houses, lush urban tree canopy, parks, and restaurants, Timbergrove has experienced an influx of growth and redevelopment. Some of these large lots are now being repurposed as multifamily uses as the City of Houston fills in its core area. The project’s site and immediate area is known for its industrial uses and is a quilt work of large 1-story tall steel sheds. While residential Timbergrove does not change easily the other half has experienced rapid growth as industry is replaced with townhomes and multifamily blocks. One block away from the site of this new project, prairie style ranch homes of the 1950’s, an architectural language embraced by early housing developers in Houston, line the neatly arranged streets with old growth trees. They are defined by their low-slung hip roofs, known for being angular and sharp. The development will feature “significant outdoor green space” and “an amenityrich housing option,” according to a March 29 press release from Drew Steffen, senior vice president of real estate with McNair Interests. Finding some inspiration from the local architectural vernacular the building design seizes on the sharpness and angularity of these nearby homes. The multifamily block is a much larger scale and doesn’t lend itself to a direct representation of low-slung roofs. However, the sharpness is turned on its side in a series of knife edges that