GrowLofts share food, energy, and conviviality at its edges without sacrificing household autonomy.
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A Rural Timberlands Neighborhood proposed for southwest Arkansas employs resilient design to mitigate social and ecosystem disturbance regimes (housing deficiencies, wildfire, and erosion) structuring its context.
Double-front is an infill housing prototype that begins with a stacked duplex to create a range of missing middle housing configurations for small downtowns like Fayetteville, Arkansas (population: 85,000).
A former scrap metal yard located four blocks north of Conway’s main commercial street was re-imagined as a new square surrounded by a mixed-use residential district.
The Circle is a mixed-use live-work destination in a small town (Bentonville, Arkansas population: 40,000) undergoing urban succession from low-density metropolitan sprawl to a mature city with density and good town form.
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Imagine downtown Pine Bluff, the regional neighborhood of choice for mixed-income households seeking the option of an urban lifestyle where they can walk or bike safely to work, school, church, shops, and lakeside recreation . . . and it’s affordable!
The goal of this study is to envision a Livability Improvement Plan for Willow Heights that triangulates economic feasibility with enhanced placemaking and building renovations to create a blended-income neighborhood.
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.
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The housing master plan shifts age related planning processes from traditional institutional settings toward a more community-based solution.