Hycohen is a 210-unit development on the south side of Houston, Texas. Organized within a splayed crosshatch of drives are seven residential buildings, a loose-fitting grid that sandwich a meandering sequence of shared amenities: community building to central pond to dog park and run. In each, one- and two-bedroom units combine to form three legible volumes, one sheared at the main entry, and all tied together from one end by a playful roofscape. Enmeshed within a rich landscape of native trees and grasses, the otherwise identical buildings are occasionally rotated within the grid yet painted on each side relative to orientation—warm in tone if viewing north, cool if south—lending variety and interest while instilling a sense of orientation and place.