Location: 110 Milam Street, Houston, Texas

Professor: Katie LaRose, AIA, 2501 Intermediate Studio

Typology: Women’s Homeless Shelter + Community

Inspired Precedent: Yokohama Apartments

Area: 13,578 SF

Maison Des Femmes is located on Milam St, Houston, Texas right by the historic Buffalo Bayou. Due to the flooding of Hurricane Harvey, it destroyed the back facade leaving the North wall exposed. With the site being downtown, prone to many homeless around the area, and only two women’s homeless shelters throughout all of Houston, Maison Des Femmes represents the idea of community inspired by precedent Yokohama Apartments and dedicated the site to being a safe women’s shelter giving back to the community yet being a community within itself.