Dallas

Texas, United States of America

Client Central Dallas Community Development Corporation

Buildings · Housing

This concept proposal reconciles a densely programmed city block with the desire for adaptable, and meaningfully sustainable, urban space. The building form is anchored by functionally concentrated towers, providing for a flexible arrangement of stacked timber apartments.

Modern building with curved glass windows, multiple floors, and tall structures in the background, surrounded by trees, architecture by MOXON Architects.

View from under a modern tunnel opening, cars passing on a bridge with distant skyscrapers, architecture by MOXON Architects.

The towers provide all circulation, air cooling and water and waste management in concentrated nodes, allowing for a flexible arrangement of accommodation that lends itself to future adaptation and modification. The result is a robust and coherent architectural approach that is nevertheless highly flexible and adaptable - an organic assembly that meets the requirement for super high density.

A 3D architectural design sketch with rectangular elements on a grid, featuring geometric lines and circles, architecture by MOXON Architects.

Sketches of a modern building with tall vertical elements and horizontal connections, architecture by MOXON Architects.

Abstract sketches of building forms and structures, with a focus on vertical elements, overall composition simple, architecture by MOXON Architects.

Sketch of a building layout with various structures and lines, overall composition is minimalist with a focus on black ink details, architecture by MOXON Architects.

The modular apartments are formed from 8m x 3m timber boxes. Each box is considered as permanent formwork - structural concrete is cast into the interstitial spaces between units providing thermal mass, acoustic separation and structural integrity.