The Farmington townscape plan retrofits a suburban five-lane commercial arterial into a multiway boulevard. Townscaping employs a serial organization of nodes to create a walkable urban environment within an automobile-oriented context. Townscaping proposes an incremental urbanism without reliance on capital-intensive architectural investments. The goal is to evolve a memorable, or articulated, town fabric through three placemaking strategies: 1) context-sensitive highway design, 2) public art planning, and 3) agricultural urbanism.

Awards

2017 Third Place AMoA Biennal 600: Architecture
2013 ASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning
2012 American Architecture Award
2011 AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
2010 AR APA Achievement in Urban Design Award
2010 BSA Unbuilt Architecture Design Citation Award

Sponsor

National Endowment for the Arts

Client

City of Farmington, Arkansas