Baytown, TX.
School Project, University of Houston
PROPOSAL FOR THE BAYTOWN WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
The City of Baytown, home to the giant Exxon refinery and the former Goose Creek Oil Field, is defined more by a de-spoiling of the environment than by strategies for its remediation. As a counterpoint, we explored one slice of this landscape as a means to develop productive design strategies that have the potential to be both exemplary and meaningful for users, mixing the presence of the oil fields with the water and more sustainable possibilities.
We engaged in practices that are performance-based, research-oriented, sustainable, and networked into the existing city. Our intention was to interweave natural ecologies like the wetlands, parks and green areas, with infrastructural, cultural, social, and environmental layers.