low impact development:
habitat trails
ROGERS, ARKANSAS with University of Arkansas Ecological Engineering Group
Parks, Not Pipes
Habitat Trails is a green affordable neighborhood development consisting of 17 Habitat for Humanity homes. The site is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns. Stormwater runoff will be retained and treated through a contiguous network of bioswales, infiltration trenches, stormwater gardens, sediment filter strips, and a constructed wet meadow. The integration of a treatment landscape with open space substitutes an ecologically-based stormwater management system for the expensive curb-gutter-pipe solution in civil infrastructure. Water is treated as a resource rather than a hazard.
2008 IRWP Golden Paddle Award
2008 AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
2007 CNU Charter Award
2007 NCARB Prize
2007 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award
2006 Arkansas AIA Citation Award
2006 NSF Finalist: Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
2006 UA Academic Convocation Faculty and Student Collaboration Award
2006 ASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning
2006 AIA Education Honors Award
2006 EDRA/Places Award for Place Design, Planning, and Research