Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is the third building in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) complex, built as a part of the redevelopment project of the institution’s Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus. 

S Library is a new library building developed within an old school. The site facing the school’s playground sits atop the existing, rigid order of the school’s architecture. While school architecture of the past adopted a strict hierarchy, with a playground built as an authoritative structure placed on top of a high platform, S Library loosens the boundary between the ground and architecture, letting the building naturally slip down to the playground. This architecture of more flexible boundaries allows us to look not only at the relationship between the ground and architecture, but also at the potential connections between people and architecture.

The site is located in the centre of Heyri Art Valley. Located at the corner of the village’s three-way intersection, the site faces into a stream of many visitors and a quiet and peaceful back hill on the north side. The structure that is to be built here is accommodating of the surrounding environment and the flow of the floating population, and is composed of the following methods of dialogue.