As Texas faces accelerating urbanization, housing must respond not only to population growth but also to planetary limits. This exhibition explores a bold question: What if housing became an instrument of carbon capture rather than carbon consumption?
More than shelter, housing is a foundational typology for shaping new urbanization patterns across the state. In the rapidly expanding Texas Triangle, which connects Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin, housing offers a strategic opportunity to embed ecological performance into the everyday fabric of the city. These proposals position housing as a living infrastructural system, capable of turning neighborhoods into networks of carbon sinks.
Rooted in this logic, the projects reimagine density, materiality, and landscape integration to sequester carbon while supporting human life. From biogenic materials to regenerative block typologies, the work shifts housing from an extractive model to an ecological one. Design becomes strategy. Structure becomes interface. Cities become sites of atmospheric repair.
