Jade Island House

2021—2023
Houston, TX
Private Client
Built

NO OFFICE designed this home from the inside-out. The challenge of the project is that the clients began with a spec-home from a builder with little-to-no definition of the interior. We were tasked with the design of the interior spaces for the client who is a young family with a teenager and two small dogs. The 5,000 SF house is sited in a new development outside of Houston and is surrounded by a natural wildlife preserve.

Upon entering the home through the foyer, the living room, dining room, and kitchen, are all unified into one large space with floor-to-ceiling glass doors that pivot open to a back porch and connect to a natural water body along a wooden deck. The lower level of the two-story home is the social space of the home. The upper floor of the home is the more private space of the home. Two wings on either side of a shared common space are for the primary and secondary bedrooms. The primary bedroom connects to a large bathroom modeled after a spa and a walk-in closet with a private vanity. Both bedrooms connect to a balcony that overlooks the natural wildlife preserve beyond.

Project Team: Nimet Anwar, Omar Ali, Hannah Puerta





















About Us

NO OFFICE is a design and research practice focusing on architecture, urbanism, and everything in between. Much of our work seeks to reevaluate existing policies and conditions and to reframe them in a way that is more equitable and dynamic. Our ethos is to constantly challenge and rethink established systems rather than accept them as they are.
What We Do

NO OFFICE is a full-service architecture firm, licensed to practice architecture in the states of New York, Illinois, and Texas. We design buildings from feasibility and zoning through design and construction. We work on architecture, interiors, urbanism, and objects. We are open to discuss your ideas and bring them to life through drawings, visualizations, and models.