University of Arkansas Community Design Center

The scenario plan envisions the foodshed as an ecological municipal utility, featuring green infrastructure, public growscapes, and urban spaces related to food processing, distribution, and consumption.

What if 80% of future growth occurred around a new streetcar system along Fayetteville’s main commercial arterial, presently dominated by sprawl and the automobile?

This regional rail study is the first step in helping Northwest Arkansas envision smart growth development opportunities through context-responsive transportation planning.

The scenario plan envisions the foodshed as an ecological municipal utility, featuring green infrastructure, public growscapes, and urban spaces related to food processing, distribution, and consumption.

A suburban five-lane commercial arterial is transformed into a multiway boulevard including public art and edible landscaping.

Without land-use zoning, the challenge is to devise alternative plans and form-based codes for a town without the capacity to progressively shape its growth.

The environmental education center is conceived as an exhibit landscape that curates visitors’ passage through unique ecological facilities, landscapes, and architectural structures.

Flyover gardens are a new hybrid that integrates highway infrastructure and landscape while restoring the urban surface for pedestrian market activity.

Instead of new construction, the proposal unearths 13th century cellars and utilizes incremental developments to reunite disjointed functions within the square.

The revitalization plan begins with selective aggregations of affordable housing ($100K units) around two neighborhood parks: one existing and one proposed.

This habitat restoration and education garden for the Paul Nolan Wastewater Treatment Plant and adjacent prairie restores ecological and recreational functions.

Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The  park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.

Identifiable arboreal spatial arrangements like allées, bosques, hammocks, and groves form outdoor rooms to create a living educational center at Little Rock's Two Rivers Park.

Distinguished by their contexts and fluvial profiles, three urban stream reaches are developed to create a new downtown greenway.

This plan for a legacy downtown neighborhood recovers the full spectrum of land uses to meet the daily needs of its residents at all income levels with varying mobility needs.

The proposal reflects the green development philosophy outlined in The Rwanda National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development.

A pocket neighborhood is an identifiable cluster of houses around shared outdoor commons and infrastructure.

A suburban five-lane commercial arterial is transformed into a multiway boulevard including public art and edible landscaping.

The revitalization plan begins with selective aggregations of affordable housing ($100K units) around two neighborhood parks: one existing and one proposed.

Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.

Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The  park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.

The Habitat for Humanity neighborhood is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns.

The housing master plan shifts age related planning processes from traditional institutional settings toward a more community-based solution. 

Beyond simple infill development, housing serves as a place-making tool to anchor a nascent downtown arts district for Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The Creative Corridor retrofits a four-block segment of an endangered historic downtown Main Street through development catalyzed by the cultural arts rather than Main Street’s traditional retail base.

What if 80% of future growth occurred around a new streetcar system along Fayetteville’s main commercial arterial, presently dominated by sprawl and the automobile?

Flyover gardens are a new hybrid that integrates highway infrastructure and landscape while restoring the urban surface for pedestrian market activity.

A suburban five-lane commercial arterial is transformed into a multiway boulevard including public art and edible landscaping.

Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The  park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.

Highway Ecologies is a participatory planning model to achieve context-sensitive highway design.

Three holistic solutions remediate a 2,000-foot urban stream corridor running through the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas.

Beyond simple infill development, housing serves as a place-making tool to anchor a nascent downtown arts district for Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The proposal reflects the green development philosophy outlined in The Rwanda National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Development.

A pocket neighborhood is an identifiable cluster of houses around shared outdoor commons and infrastructure.

Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.

Like waterfronts and transit stops, parks leverage value in urban areas. The  park is envisioned as the anchor for a larger urban landscape network.

The Habitat for Humanity neighborhood is designed as a sponge to work in accord with existing hydrological drainage, catchment, and recharge patterns.

The project addresses the departure of artists from Fayetteville with below market-rate housing for those who could not otherwise afford to live in the downtown.

The housing master plan shifts age related planning processes from traditional institutional settings toward a more community-based solution. 

Planning leverages urban and ecological services in the porch, yard, street, and open space. Neighborhoods are developed as sub-watersheds.

This regional rail study is the first step in helping Northwest Arkansas envision smart growth development opportunities through context-responsive transportation planning.

Highway Ecologies is a participatory planning model to achieve context-sensitive highway design.