CONTENT Designs Foster Home

Recently CONTENT was engaged to assist with the Schematic Design for a new Foster Home Facility here in Houston. Of paramount importance was educating the children about healthy living and helping them to understand the choices they have in monitoring and participating in their own health. Beyond teaching sustainable principles such as air quality, energy consumption, and material longevity the program encourages familiarity with the tools necessary for self-reliance, creating a family of individually confident children eager to confront challenges on their own terms.

Incorporating native gardens with rainwater collection, the design engages the environment literally and by using materials that change with time. Wood turns silver, the copper study nooks projecting from each bedroom gradually turn green, and the building as a whole ages with the children. Unfortunately the project has since been put on hold, for the time being we are left with but a few renderings to share.