Obus Lofts.

For the past several weeks, wacdesignstudio has been working on a paper architecture project entitled Obus Lofts, a design experiment for the city of Houston of how to redesign the city based on a future of oil and water scarcity while maintaining the core landmark of the city, it’s freeway system.

Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Plan Obus for Algiers of 1933-1944, a massive high-rise development will be proposed under Houston’s freeway system. This project will place several twenty first century narratives together in a proposal to rebuild sprawling American cities in the form of a new condo development.

Obus Lofts will include its own product and furniture line intended for Obus Lofts’ residents, writings, drawings, an architectural model and an animation.

Periodically, we will post progress images and additional writings outlining this project. Here are some still images from the animation video that we are currently working on. For questions please contact us electronically by writing us to mail@wacdesignstudio.com.

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wacdesignstudio on Houston Modern Luxury Magazine.

Back in July, Chris Kelly (a contributor writer at Houston Modern Luxury Magazine) sat with us to talk about art, design and every day life. The result: A one page article featured on the September 2010 Home and Fashion Issue of Houston Modern Luxury Magazine. If you have the chance to grab a copy, make sure to turn to page 58.

In "Artists in Residence: A young couple reimagines city planning-and urban interior design," Chris Kelly introduces our current project (Obus Lofts), writes about our curved furniture pieces and describes some of our favorite things to do in Houston. If you don't have access to an actual copy of the magazine don't worry, you can read the full article online or download the magazine's digital edition here. We'd like to thank HOUSTON Magazine's senior editor Mitchell Alan Parker, the talented photographer Shannon O'Hara, and of course Chris Kelly for all their work in publishing this article.

Additionally, we'd like to thank Tony Medrano for inviting us to present last month at Pecha Kucha Night Houston Vol. 3. It was a great opportunity to meet and learn about other local creatives and talk about our work in just 400 seconds (20 images x 20 seconds each), if you where there with us you know that all the presentations were great and that the format is definitely challenging. The next Pecha Kucha Night Houston will be in November 2010 and Tony is looking for candidates willing to present, so if you want to participate or would like to recommend somebody to present, volunteer or sponsor the event get in touch with him soon.

Thanks for your continued support and interest in wacdesignstudio. To obtain more info on our Obus Lofts project, please visit our blog and website.

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